What does compensate mean?
Definitions for compensate
ˈkɒm pənˌseɪtcom·pen·sate
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word compensate.
Princeton's WordNet
compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even upverb
adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
compensate, recompense, repair, indemnifyverb
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"
cover, compensate, overcompensateverb
make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
right, compensate, redress, correctverb
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
pay, pay off, make up, compensateverb
do or give something to somebody in return
"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"
compensate, recompense, remunerateverb
make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
Wiktionary
compensateverb
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
compensateverb
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.
compensateverb
To adjust or adapt to a change; often a negative, (harmful, or depriving) or undesired one.
Etymology: From compensatus, past participle of compensare, from com- + pensare.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To COMPENSATEverb
To recompense; to be equivalent to; to counterballance; to countervail; to make amends for.
Etymology: compenso, Lat.
The length of the night, and the dews thereof, do compensate the heat of the day. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 398.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Matthew Prior.
Nature to these, without profusion kind,
The proper organs, proper pow’rs assign’d;
Each seeming want compensated of course,
Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force. Alexander Pope.
ChatGPT
compensate
Compensate means to provide something, often money, to make up for a loss, injury, or suffering. It can also mean to counterbalance or offset something such as a disadvantage or a defect.
Webster Dictionary
Compensateverb
to make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses
Compensateverb
to be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for
Compensateverb
to make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Compensate
kom′pen-sāt, or kom-pen′sāt, v.t. to reward suitably: to make amends for: to recompense: to counterbalance.—n. Compensā′tion, act of compensating: reward for service: amends for loss sustained: (phys.) the neutralisation of opposing forces.—adjs. Compen′sative, Compen′satory, giving compensation.—n. Com′pensātor, one who or that which compensates.—Compensation balance, pendulum, a balance-wheel or pendulum so constructed as to counteract the effect of the expansion and contraction of the metal under variation of temperature. [L. com, inten., and pensāre, freq. of pendĕre, to weigh.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'compensate' in Verbs Frequency: #888
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of compensate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of compensate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of compensate in a Sentence
The settlement agreement also requires McDonald's to compensate lawful permanent resident employees of McDonald's-owned restaurants who lost work or lost their jobs due to these documentary practices.
It takes us a lot of time and effort to find these donors, when we do find them, we want to keep them as engaged as possible and really want to compensate them for their time.
Once people have accumulated some C$100,000 in expenses, we won't compensate them any more. And if it goes beyond that, it will be to offer them to move.
The Petito family lost their daughter, and they were also denied the opportunity to confront her killer, no amount of money is sufficient to compensate the Petito family for the loss of their daughter, Gabby, at the hands of Brain Laundrie.
Chief Executive Elmar Degenhart:
Market growth in Europe and the USA helped us to compensate for slower growth in China, major recessions in Russia and Brazil, and the decline in industrial business, particularly in the raw materials sector, we aim to maintain our adjusted EBIT margin again at more than 10.5 percent.
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- تعويArabic
- обезщетявам, компенсирамBulgarian
- [[eine]] [[Kompensation]] [[zahlen]], kompensierenGerman
- kompensoida, hyvittää, korvataFinnish
- compenserFrench
- dìolScottish Gaelic
- לתגמל, לפצותHebrew
- kompenzál, kárpótol, kártalanít, ellensúlyozHungarian
- 補填Japanese
- compenserenDutch
- kompensereNorwegian
- compensarPortuguese
- compensaRomanian
- компенсировать, возместить, возмещатьRussian
- nadòmjestiti, kompenzírati, nadòknaditiSerbo-Croatian
- ஈடுTamil
- పరిహారంTelugu
- zararını karşılamak, telafi etmekTurkish
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