English-Danish translations for consolation prize

• trøstepræmie
  Den ynkelige trøstepræmie er, at der kan iværksættes et pilotprojekt. A pilot project that may be started up is the paltry consolation prize.
• trøstpræmie
  Medlemskabet af Den Europæiske Union er ikke nogen trøstpræmie for ikke at være blevet medlem af NATO, det er en værdi i sig selv og skal også behandles således! Membership of the European Union is not a consolation prize for rejection by NATO - it is a prize in itself, and must be treated as such.
  Man kan sige, at naboskabspolitikken i sin tid blev skabt som en slags "trøstpræmie" for lande, som ikke skulle tiltræde EU. We might say that the Neighbourhood Policy was once designed as a kind of 'consolation prize' for countries which were not going to accede to the European Union.

Definition of consolation prize

• 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

Related words

• consolation
• disconsolate
• consolatory
• disconsolately
• disconsolateness
• consolation goal