Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adjusted so as to neutralize or balance differences or deviations; as a compensated balance or pendulum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective receiving or eligible for compensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
compensate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective receiving or eligible for compensation
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Examples
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The way people in finance tend to be compensated is with very large short-term cash bonuses for making decisions that could have gigantic losses seven years later.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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Similarly, because those young people in compensated dating know that you “adults” would condemn their acts, they go deeper underground.
Global Voices in English » Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives 2009
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Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares.
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The way people in finance tend to be compensated is with very large short-term cash bonuses for making decisions that could have gigantic losses seven years later.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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The way people in finance tend to be compensated is with very large short-term cash bonuses for making decisions that could have gigantic losses seven years later.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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"Dr. Griffin compensated by raping and pillaging other programs to get the money back for Ares"
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Economic theory shows that * everybody* could be better off if the losers are compensated from the country's gains.
Trade Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I yanked the control back, slowing further, my heart beating as the hauler again compensated, the connected pods jerked against the median and flailed out into the lane.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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The only part of the bill where unsecured creditors might be compensated is from a fund that is maintained by a fee imposed on the banks.
GOP Senators united in opposition to current financial reform bill 2010
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The way people in finance tend to be compensated is with very large short-term cash bonuses for making decisions that could have gigantic losses seven years later.
Erica Abeel: Will Inside Job Start a Popular Rebellion? Erica Abeel 2010
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