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COMPENSATE
compensate, recompense, remunerate
(verb) make payment to; compensate; “My efforts were not remunerated”
compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify
(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for; “One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich”; “She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident”
pay, pay off, make up, compensate
(verb) do or give something to somebody in return; “Does she pay you for the work you are doing?”
right, compensate, redress, correct
(verb) make reparations or amends for; “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
(verb) adjust for; “engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
compensate (third-person singular simple present compensates, present participle compensating, simple past and past participle compensated)
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
(ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
Synonyms
• (to do something good): See compensate
• (to pay): guerdon, reimburse; see also reimburse
• (to adjust to a change): acclimatize, acclimate, accommodate, accustom, adapt; see also accustom
• (to make up for): See atone or offset
• equate
• offset
• redeem
• accord
• reconcile
• harmonize
• atone
• indemnify
• requite
• rectify
• level
• resolve
• square
• amend
• expiate
• redress
• remedy
• remunerate
• appease
• restitute and restitution
Source: Wiktionary
Com"pen*sate ( or ; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] Etym: [L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendum.]
1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for. The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.
Syn.
– To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.
Com"pen*sate, v. i.
Definition: To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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