compensate

[com·pen·sate]

Compensate is about correcting for an imbalance. If you step in an unmarked pothole, the city may compensate you by paying your doctor bills treating a broken ankle.

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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.

Verb
make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"

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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"

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do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

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make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

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adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

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make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father"

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.

v. i.
To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

Compensate

Com"pen*sate (? ∨ ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [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.

The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.

Syn. -- To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.

Compensate

Com"pen*sate, v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

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.

To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

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Usage Examples

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

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Other Usage Examples

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.