Compensate

Definition: Compensate

Compensate

Verb

1. Make up for, make good.

2. Make amends for; pay compensation for.

3. Make reparations or amends for; "right a wrong".

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

5. Make proper payment to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "compensate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Compensate \Com"pen*sate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Compensated; Compensating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Compensate

Compensation

Verb: make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem; (atone).

Counteraction

Undo, neutralize; counterpoise; (compensate); overpoise.

Restitution

Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good).

Reward

Verb: reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate; compensate; fee; pay one's footing; (pay); make amends, indemnify, atone; satisfy, acknowledge.

Crosswords: Compensate

I am prepared to compensate you. Shall we say one million American dollars? (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

Well, it always matters, but there are other ways to compensate. (Queen of Swords; writing credit: Durnford King; James Thorpe)

Tiffany, dear, would you please explain to this Spatula man why a bumper-sticker cannot possibly compensate for the shame and permanent reputation damage involved in a single date with Charles Ruttheimer? (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll)

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• Does money compensate for rape? : efficacy of law and the enforcement system in providing justice to scheduled tribe victims of rape (reference)

• How to compensate executives (reference)

• Maximum Performance Management: How to Manage and Compensate People to Meet World Competition (reference)

• No success can compensate for children in the home (reference)

• Selected readings from "How to compensate executives" (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Compensate [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

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A slide of a map showing sites of the quahog spawner sanctuaries. The quahog spawner sanctuaries were established to compensate for injuries to shellfish after oil spilled in Narragansett Bay when the World Prodigy ship grounded in 1989. Quahogs were taken from polluted areas of Narragansett Bay and allowed to depurate and then moved into clean areas where they were protected from harvest. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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That, he who has suffered the damage has a right to demand in his own name, and he alone can remit: the damnified person has this power of appropriating to himself the goods or service of the offender, by right of self-preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preserving all mankind, and doing all reasonable things he can in order to that end: and thus it is, that every man, in the state of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compensate, by the example of the punishment that attends it from every body, and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lyon or a tyger, one of those wild savage beasts, with whom men can have no society nor security: and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, Who so sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. (Second Treatise of Government)

Germany will directly compensate her nationals who may have been dispossessed by the aforesaid liquidations. (reference)

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Health

Glasses or contact lenses are designed to compensate for the eye's imperfections. (references)

If one copy of a gene is not working properly, its partner from the other parent can often compensate. (references)

Sometimes treatments stimulate or compensate for missing hormones, others reduce the production of hormones. (references)

Business

Therefore, it will be up to the government to compensate for the shortage. (references)

But with the expansion of the Pacific Rim markets for RFE timber, high returns on the investments can compensate for the risks. (references)

Entrepreneurs who abuse the new rules for challenging procurement processes will be expected to compensate defendants and other participants. (references)

Civil Liberties

Mauritania

Nevertheless these students are able to advance in school and graduate with diplomas, provided that they compensate for their failure to attend the required religion classes by their performance in other classes. (references)

Turkey

A 1998 parliamentary committee investigation concluded that the State was partly responsible for the displacements and had failed to compensate adequately villagers who had lost their homes and lands in the region. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Many Russian workers compensate by working other part-time jobs. (references)

Human Rights

Germany

In cases of acquittal, the Government must compensate the individual. (references)

Libya

In July 2000, the Government paid the French Government $31 million (17 million dinars) to compensate the victims' families. (references)

Zambia

The Government decided not to compensate the victims and does not intend to implement any of the recommended disciplinary measures. (references)

Minorities

Zimbabwe

Members of the Ndebele community continued to criticize the Government's unequal distribution of national resources and the Government's failure to compensate victims of the 1980's Matabeleland killings. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

In the short term, the government has taken steps to compensate for the fiscal deficit resulting from reduced tariff income by improving domestic tax collection. (references)

NIGERIA

Employers must compensate injured workers and dependent survivors of those killed in industrial accidents but enforcement of these laws by the ministry of labor is largely ineffective. (references)

Trade

Eritrea

Excise taxes for most goods will be increased to compensate for loss of revenue from customs duties and corporate profit tax. (references)

Haiti

Primary export products benefit from a price insurance fund called Stabex, part of a system created to compensate for losses due to world price fluctuations. (references)

Brazil

As with value-added taxes in Europe, IPI taxes on products that pass through several stages of processing can be adjusted to compensate for IPI taxes paid at each stage. (references)

Travel

Austria

Prompt handling of correspondence is much appreciated and helps to compensate for the distance between the two countries. (references)

Women

Austria

The Federal Equality Commission, as well as the Labor Court, can order employers to compensate victims of sexual harassment. (references)

Ghana

The tribunal ruled that the woman had to compensate the teacher with a portion of rum, a pot of palm wine, and $6 (2,000 cedis). (references)

Worker Rights

Slovak Republic

Private enterprises can compensate their employees for more hours of overtime than stipulated by the law. (references)

Mexico

Reforms were effected also through cooperation in programs to increase, and compensate for, productivity. (references)

Nigeria

The law requires employers to compensate injured workers and dependent survivors of those killed in industrial accidents. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "compensate": compensate each other ♦ compensate for ♦ compensate for smth. ♦ compensate smb. for smth.. Additional references.

Ending with "compensate": over-compensate.

Afrikaans

beloon (reward). (various references)

Albanian

zhdëmtoj (indemnify, recompense), kompensoj (atone for, counterbalance, make up, offset, recompense, recoup, refund, reimburse, remedy), dëmshpërblej (indemnify, recoup), balancoj (balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, weigh up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كافأ (be similar to, gratify, make amends, match, measure up to, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, reward), ‏عوض على (recompense), ‏عادل (amount, counteract, countervail, equal, equitable, even, even-minded, fair, impartial, just, neutralize, noble-descent, offset, reasonable, right, rightful, set off, unbiased). (various references)

Bulgarian 

компенсирам (atone, countervail, indemnify, make amends, make good, make restitution, offset, recoup, redeem, redress, repair, reward, set off), възнаграждавам (guerdon, pay, recompense, remunerate, repay, requite, reward), обезщетявам (indemnify, make up, offset, pay, recompense, recoup, satisfy), балансирам (balance, poise, redeem, tie in), плащам (come across, cough up, defray, give, kick in, meet, part, pay, plank down, remunerate, set up, settle up, shell out, stand sam). (various references)

Chinese 

� 償 , 酬 (entertain, repay, return, reward), 補償 (make up), 补偿 (Compensated, Compensating). (various references)

Czech

vyvážit (equilibrate, equiponderate, offset, outweigh), vyrovnat se (align, Aline, countervail, flatten), nahradit (make good, make up for, recompense, recover, redeem, refund, reimburse, repay, replace, retrieve, substitute, supersede, supplant, supply), kompenzovat (offset, recoup). (various references)

Danish

belønne (reward). (various references)

Dutch

vergoeden (to indemnify, to pay compensation, to remit), goedmaken, compenseren. (various references)

Esperanto

rekompenci (reward), kompensi. (various references)

Faeroese

samsýna (reward), javna aftur (reward). (various references)

Farsi 

پاداش دادن , تاوان دادن (Indemnify, Penalize, Remunerate, Retaliate), عوض دادن (Recompense), جبران کردن (Atone, Gratify, Offset, Reciprocate, Recoup, Rectify, Redress, Reimburse, Remedy, Repair, Retrieve). (various references)

Finnish

korvata (balance, replace, substitute), kompensoida, hyvittää (credit, make amends for, make good, make up, reimburse). (various references)

French

compenser (correct). (various references)

Frisian

leanje (reward), beleanje (reward). (various references)

German

ausgleichen (act as a mediator, balance, balance out, balancing, equalize, even out, fund, iron out, level off, level out, level up, make good, make up, offset, reconcile, settle, steady, to balance, to compensate, to square), vergüten (coat, pay, recompense, refund, reimburse, remunerate, temper), kompensieren (to compensate, transact), entschädigen (indemnify, make amends to, recompense, recoup, reimburse, remunerate, reward, to compensate, to indemnify, to recoup, to reimburse). (various references)

Greek 

ισοφαρίζω (counterbalance, counterpoise, equal, equalise), αποζημιώνω (buy out, indemnify, recompense, recoup, reimburse, remunerate). (various references)

Hebrew 

לת�'מל, לקזז (crumble, offset, write off), לפצות (make up, make up for, offset, recompense, redress). (various references)

Hungarian

kiegyenlít (balance, clear off, equalize, equate, even, harmonize, level, offset, pay, pay off, to accommodate, to acquit, to equalize, to equate, to equilibrate, to even, to iron out, to level off, to level out, to liquidate, to make good, to make square, to make up, to offset, to pay off, to reconcile, wipe out), kárpótol (condone, indemnify, make it up, make up, make up to, recompense, recoup, reimburse, to compensate, to condone, to make up, to offset, to recompense, to recoup), ellensúlyoz (countervail, counterweigh, equiponderate, offset, set off, to correct, to counteract, to equilibrate, to offset, to set off). (various references)

Icelandic

umbuna (reward). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganti kerugian, mengganjar (repay, reward), membenarkan (approve of, confirm, corroborate, justify, straighten). (various references)

Italian

ricompensare (recompense, repay, requite, reward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

補う　 (supplementone's, to compensate for), 補う (to compensate for), 贖う (to compensate, to make up for), 埋め合せる (to compensate for, to make amends, to make up for), 埋め合わせる (to compensate for, to make amends, to make up for), 償う (to atone for, to compensate for, to indemnify, to make up for, to recompense, to redeem). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おぎなう (to compensate for), うめあわせる (to compensate for, to make amends, to make up for), つぐなう (to atone for, to compensate for, to indemnify, to make up for, to recompense, to redeem), あがなう (to compensate, to make up for). (various references)

Korean 

보상하십시�" (indemnify). (various references)

Manx

lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, cultivation, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensation, consummate, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfaction, satisfy, vengeance), aayeeilley (compensation, rebate, recoup, repay, repayment, retribution). (various references)

Norwegian

kompensere, erstatte. (various references)

Papiamen

rekompensá (reward). (various references)

Pig Latin

ompensatecay

Portuguese

recompensar (award, fee, gratify, guerdon, pay, recompense, remunerate, requite, reward). (various references)

Romanian

compensa (atone for, cancel, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, indemnify, make up for, offset, recoup, redeem, satisfy), recompensa (gratify, pay, recompense, remunerate, repay), egaliza (assimilate, dub, equalize, even, level, planish), echilibra (balance, ballast, cancel out, counterbalance, countervail, equilibrate, equipoise, offset, poise), despãgubi (indemnify, recompense, reimburse). (various references)

Russian 

компенсировать (countervail, indemnify, made up with, make up, make up for, offset, recompense, recoup, remunerate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obeštetiti (indemnify, recompense, redress, remunerate), nadoknaditi (catch up, make good, make it up, make up, make up for, make up to, recompense, recoup, recover, redeem, reimburse), kompenzovati. (various references)

Spanish

indemnizar (indemnify, satisfy), compensar (balance, countervail, make good, make up for, offset, pay, requite, set off), recompensar (guerdon, recompense, requite, reward). (various references)

Swedish

kompensera (make up for, off-set), ersätta (displace, double for, indemnify, pay, recompense, recoup, reimburse, remunerate, renew, repay, replace, satisfy, supersede). (various references)

Turkish

yerini tutmak (replace), telâfi etmek (atone, atone for, make up, make up for, overcompensate, recoup, recover, recuperate, redeem, redress, repair, repay, retrieve, right, undo), tazmin etmek (make good, make restitution, recoup), karşılamak (answer, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, fulfil, fulfill, greet, make amends, meet, provide, provision, receive, recompense, recoup, redress, satisfy, supply, take, welcome), eşitlemek (countervail, equalize, equate, even up, level), denklemek (balance, countervail, even up), denkleşmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

tцlemek (pay, recompense). (various references)

Ukrainian

урівноважувати (ballast, counterbalance, counterpoise, equilibrate, equipoise, neutralize, poise), компенсувати (atone, balance, countervail, make up, offset, piece out, recompense, restitute), відшкодовувати (atone, offset, redress, refund, reimburse, remedy, repay, restitute, supply), винагороджувати (crown, gratify, recompense, remunerate, requite), балансувати (balance, poise). (various references)

Welsh

digolledu (indemnify). (various references)

búr. (various references)

napâlu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compensate": compensated, compensates. (additional references)

Words ending with "compensate": decompensate, overcompensate. (additional references)

Words containing "compensate": decompensated, decompensates, overcompensated, overcompensates, uncompensated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compensate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compensa, compense, compernsate, conpensate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conepates, copemates.

-2 letters: acetones, capstone, casement, competes, conepate, copemate, notecase, opencast, potences, spacemen.

-3 letters: acetone, acetose, capotes, cementa, cements, cenotes, cetanes, coatees, coempts, comates, compete, encamps, meanest, menaces, metepas, metopae, metopes, octanes, openest, pectase, pectens, penates, pentose, pomaces, posteen, postman, postmen, poteens, potence, tampons, tenaces, teopans, toecaps, tonemes.

-4 letters: aments, ascent, aspect, atones, cameos.

+1 letter: compensated, compensates.

+2 letters: compensative, contemplates, decompensate.

+3 letters: compactnesses, decompensated, decompensates, encompassment, intercompares, outplacements, spermatogenic, uncompensated.

+4 letters: acetaminophens, appendectomies, compatibleness, contemplatives, contemporaries, decompensating, decompensation, encompassments, exceptionalism, magnetospheric, metencephalons, overcompensate, pinealectomies, pneumothoraces, rapprochements.

+5 letters: comparativeness, complementaries, complicatedness, contemporaneous, counterexamples, decompensations, exceptionalisms, mercaptopurines, overcompensated, overcompensates, phenomenalistic, pinealectomizes, plainclothesmen.