consolation prize

English

Noun

consolation prize (plural consolation prizes)

1. An award or small item given to persons or groups of people who do not win an event but are worthy of recognition, especially in a game show.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.

Translations

award given to persons or groups of people who do not win

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安慰獎 / 安慰奖 (zh) (ānwèijiǎng)

• Czech: cena útěchy f
• Dutch: troostprijs (nl) m
• Esperanto: konsolpremio sg
• Finnish: lohdutuspalkinto (fi)
• French: prix de consolation m, lot de consolation m
• German: Trostpreis (de) m
• Hebrew: פְּרַס תַּנְחוּמִים m (pras tanẖumím)
• Hungarian: vigaszdíj (hu)
• Icelandic: huggunarverðlaun n pl, uppbótarverðlaun n pl
• Italian: premio di consolazione m
• Japanese: 残念賞 (ざんねんしょう, zannenshou)
• Macedonian: утешна награда f (utešna nagrada)
• Malayalam: പ്രോത്സാഹന സമ്മാനം (ml) (prōtsāhana sammānaṁ)
• Polish: nagroda pocieszenia f
• Portuguese: prêmio de consolação m (Brazil), prémio de consolação m
• Spanish: premio de consolación m, premio de consuelo m, premio consolador m, premio consolativo m, premio consolatorio m
• Swedish: tröstpris (sv) n
• Thai: รางวัลปลอบใจ (raang-wan-bplɔ̀ɔp-jai)
• Turkish: teselli mükâfatı (tr), teselli ödülü

See also

• booby prize
• participation trophy