Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To offset; counterbalance.
- intransitive verb To make satisfactory payment or reparation to; recompense or reimburse.
- intransitive verb To stabilize the purchasing power of (a monetary unit) by changing the gold content in order to counterbalance price variations.
- intransitive verb To serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give a substitute of equal value to; give an equivalent to; recompense: as, to
compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses. - To make up for; counterbalance; make amends for.
- In mech., to construct so as to effect compensation for the results of variations of temperature. See
compensation , 4. - Synonyms Recompense, Remunerate, etc. (see
indemnify ), reward. - To supply or serve as an equivalent; make amends; atone: followed by for: as, what can compensate for the loss of honor?
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for.
- transitive verb To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably.
- transitive verb To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
pay orreward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration. - verb To
make up for; to do something in place of something else; tocorrect ,satisfy ; to reach an agreement such that the scales areliterally or (metaphorically )balanced ; toequalize or makeeven . - verb To
adjust oradapt to a change; often a negative, (harmful, ordepriving ) or undesired one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make payment to; compensate
- verb make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- verb do or give something to somebody in return
- verb adjust for
- verb make reparations or amends for
- verb make amends for; pay compensation for
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Since they did not have adequate fund to compare or come tighten to this volume of money, they offering a multiple of an increase in compensate as well as a have make have make make use of of of of of of Buffalo Rapids vehicles for personal use.
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Since they did not have adequate fund to compare or come tighten to this volume of money, they offering a multiple of an increase in compensate as well as a have make have make make use of of of of of of Buffalo Rapids vehicles for personal use.
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However chief executive Colin Tweedy said: "It is important to stress that in no way will a growth in private-sector funding in the short or medium-term compensate for cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent."
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However am very luck as do get a weekday off to compensate, which is rather lovely, and I usually spend at least part of the day with my Dad-this week we shall be working on the front garden!
Weekend working The List Writer 2008
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Twisting the wheel slightly to the left makes the motorcycle dip to the right to compensate, which is how you turn on a bike, and how you really * should* be turning even in a parking lot.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What do you get when you cross a dirt bike, snowmobile and 4-wheeler? 2006
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An easy way to compensate is to adjust the white point: you tell iMovie which color is supposed to be white, and it modifies the rest of the colors to compensate.
Macworld 2010
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An easy way to compensate is to adjust the white point: you tell iMovie which color is supposed to be white, and it modifies the rest of the colors to compensate.
Macworld 2010
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An easy way to compensate is to adjust the white point: you tell iMovie which color is supposed to be white, and it modifies the rest of the colors to compensate.
Macworld 2010
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Maybe nature has a way to compensate aka 'vitamin stupid' from the hippocampus.
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The only way to compensate is to 'do an Arsenal' and play a mainly youth team in the domestic cup competitions and if this lessens the worth of these competitions, so what?
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