compensation
Americannoun
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the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
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the state of being compensated or rewarded in this way.
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something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, injury, suffering, lack, etc.; indemnity.
The insurance company paid him $2000 as compensation for the loss of his car.
- Synonyms:
- indemnification, satisfaction, requital, reparation, amends, payment, recompense
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Biology. the improvement of any defect by the excessive development or action of another structure or organ of the same structure.
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Psychology. a mechanism by which an individual attempts to make up for some real or imagined deficiency of personality or behavior by developing or stressing another aspect of the personality or by substituting a different form of behavior.
noun
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the act or process of making amends for something
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something given as reparation for loss, injury, etc; indemnity
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the automatic movements made by the body to maintain balance
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the attempt to conceal or offset one's shortcomings by the exaggerated exhibition of qualities regarded as desirable
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biology abnormal growth and increase in size in one organ in response to the removal or inactivation of another
Other Word Forms
- compensational adjective
- noncompensation noun
- precompensation noun
- procompensation adjective
- subcompensation noun
- subcompensational adjective
Etymology
Origin of compensation
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English compensacioun, from Latin compēnsātiōn-, stem of compēnsātiō “a balancing”; equivalent to compensate + -ion
Example Sentences
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It represents a significant portion of a private-equity employee’s potential compensation.
Ms Norhayati, who also launched a lawsuit, won her case and received several million ringgit in compensation.
From BBC
Those companies sought compensation for Venezuela’s seizure of facilities they had built for those purposes.
From Los Angeles Times
Tesla CEO Elon Musk won the ability to become even richer on Friday after Delaware’s Supreme Court reinstated a compensation package that a lower-court judge threw out two years ago.
Four residents of Pari island filed the case in January 2023, demanding compensation from the world's largest cement firm and help to fund protection measures on the island.
From Barron's
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