recompense (as compensation for damage or loss) n.: quittance
“It’s horrendous,” [World Jewish Congress secretary-general Israel] Singer said in an interview, before addressing a Jewish community dinner at a midtown hotel. The money [in Swiss banks belonging to Holocaust victims] was used by the Swiss “as a quittance to Poland for (return) of property that Swiss citizens had in Communist Poland.” (Irwin Block, “Swiss to Identify Dormant Accounts,” Montreal Gazette, 5/23/1997.)
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