バイ

compensation, indemnify

JLPT1 G7 S15 F1243

As per # (spread) + 貝 commodities → spread money or payment in kind to provide full *compensation* for the original value of a (lost/destroyed) object → *indemnity*. For the correlation of the concept "spread" with the meaning "compensate," compare 補.

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