Compensatory

Definition: Compensatory

Compensatory

Adjective

1. Compensating for.

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

Date "compensatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Synonyms: Compensatory

Compensation

Adjective: compensating, compensatory; countervailing; Verb: in the opposite scale; equivalent; (equal).

Reward

Adjective: remunerative, remuneratory; munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory; rewarding; satisfactory.

Crosswords: Compensatory

Yeah, I know, that's why I play the drums - it's me active compensatory factor. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

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Books

• Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Education (reference)

• Compensatory Justice (Nomos, 33) (reference)

• Engineering Disability: Public Policy and Compensatory Technology (Health, Society, and Policy) (reference)

• From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the Limits of the Modern Order (reference)

• Special and Compensatory Programs (reference)

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Health

Compensatory approaches may have restorative effects at certain times. (references)

With age, the compensatory mechanisms that have evolved to cope with and eliminate free radicals become less efficient. (references)

Resource allocation questions extend to distributional issues within ADRD as well. At present, most ADRD care is compensatory rather than therapeutic. (references)

Business

It has a compensatory quote. (references)

In some cases, Russian enterprises were allowed to purchase foreign equipment on conditions of compensatory leasing (buy-back agreements) when they paid to suppliers of equipment with the products manufactured on the equipment. (references)

Children

Zimbabwe

The traditional practice of offering a young girl as compensatory payment in interfamily disputes continued during the year. (references)

Liechtenstein

In December 2000, Parliament amended the law to provide for compensatory payments by the Government to companies that employ persons with disabilities. (references)

Economic History

Moldova

The compensatory funds may be repatriated without restriction. (references)

Human Rights

Maldives

Punishments usually are confined to fines, compensatory payment, house arrest, imprisonment, or banishment to a remote atoll. (references)

Honduras

The Government and Casa Alianza continued negotiations under an IACHR agreement on compensatory payments to 300 juvenile offenders who served time in adult prisons from 1995 to 1999. As of October, government authorities had located 25 of the 300 juveniles. (references)

Political Economy

VENEZUELA

Conversely, when the reference price exceeds the established ceiling, the compensatory tariff is eliminated. (references)

Trade

Spain

They must deposit a bond with Customs on the compensatory tax only. (references)

Egypt

Now, compensatory shipments are released from Customs and the importer does not pay extra custom duties for the additional quantities, since custom fees are computed based on the value, not quantity, of the original shipment. (references)

Austria

In the case of a commodity that is imported on a temporary basis to be used and returned (such as machinery), a compensatory levy of 3% per month applies if the commodity would be dutiable if imported permanently into Austria. (references)

Travel

Japan

When a national holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is a compensatory day. (references)

Women

France

Women's rights groups have criticized the scope of the law as narrow and the fines and compensatory damages as often modest. (references)

Worker Rights

Chile

According to the revised labor code, if the dismissal is found to be related to trade union activity on the part of the employee, he or she may choose between reinstatement with back wages or an additional compensatory payment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "compensatory": accession compensatory amount ♦ compensatory amounts ♦ compensatory damages ♦ compensatory duty ♦ compensatory financing ♦ compensatory spending ♦ monetary compensatory amount ♦ monetary compensatory amounts. Additional references.

Ending with "compensatory": interactive-compensatory.

Albanian

shpërblyes (compensational, compensative), kompensues (compensational, compensative), bilancues (compensational, compensative). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعويضي (compensative). (various references)

Chinese 

�"偿 (Amends, Indemnities, indemnity, redress, reparation). (various references)

Czech

náhradní (spare, standby, substitute). (various references)

Danish

kompenserende (compensating), kompensatorisk (compensating). (various references)

Dutch

compensatorisch (compensating), compensatoor (compensating), compensatoir (compensating). (various references)

Finnish

vastatoimi (compensatory action, countermeasure). (various references)

French

compensatoire (compensating), prélèvement, indémnitaire (compensative). (various references)

German

Compensatorius (compensating), entschädigend (indemnifying, recouping, reimbursing). (various references)

Greek 

ικανοποιητικόσ (hankydory, satisfactory), αντισταθμιστικός (compensating), αποζημιωτικόσ (reparative). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת�'מל (requiting), מקזז (counterbalancing, equalizer, offsetting), מפצ�" (indemnifying), מאזן (balance, balancing, offsetting). (various references)

Hungarian

kompenzáló, kiegyenlítő. (various references)

Italian

compensatorio (compensating). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

振替休日 (compensatory holiday, exchange workday for holiday), 代休 (compensatory holiday). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふりかえきゅうじつ (compensatory holiday, exchange workday for holiday), � いきゅう (a bow, compensatory holiday). (various references)

Korean 

보상 (Compensating, Indemnifying, Indemnities, indemnity, reimbursement, rewarding, Righting). (various references)

Manx

lhiasee (amending, compensating, imputable), cooilleenee (compensating). (various references)

Pig Latin

ompensatorycay

Portuguese

compensador (equalizer, sway-beam). (various references)

Romanian

compensator (compensating, compensator). (various references)

Russian 

компенсирующий (cancellous, compensative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kompenzatorni. (various references)

Spanish

compensatorio (compensative). (various references)

Swedish

kompensator-. (various references)

Turkish

telâfi edici (compensative). (various references)

Ukrainian

що компенсу�" (compensative), що винагороджу�" (compensative, remunerative, rewarding), що балансу�" (compensative). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đền bù (compensative). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "compensatory": overcompensatory. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compensatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compensitory. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: compensator, trypanosome.

-2 letters: copayments, syncopator.

-3 letters: anterooms, astronomy, coenamors, coparents, copatrons, copayment, corantoes, coronates, corposant, crampoons, monastery, monocarps, monocrats, monocytes, monotypes, moonscape, oysterman, portances, protonema, stonecrop, syncopate.

-4 letters: acronyms, acrosome, aeronomy, ancestor, ancestry, anteroom, capsomer, capstone, cartoons, cartoony, coenamor, comatose, cometary, compares, comparts, comports, composer, compotes, coparent, copastor, copatron, corantos, coronate, coronets, corpsman, corpsmen.

+4 letters: overcompensatory.

+5 letters: contemporaneously, copolymerizations, thrombocytopenias.