consolation prize

consolation prize

English

Noun

consolation prize (plural consolation prizes)

1. An award 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:

     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

Czech: cena útěchy f Dutch: troostprijs (nl) m Finnish: lohdutuspalkinto (fi) French: prix de consolation m, lot de consolation m German: Trostpreis (de) m

Japanese: 残念賞 (ざんねんしょう, zannenshou) Portuguese: prêmio de consolação m (Brazil), prémio de consolação m Spanish: premio de consuelo m Swedish: tröstpris (sv) n

See also

• booby prize