Dictionary Entry
compensate
compensate is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
- 3intransitive verb
To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
- 4verb
make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
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- 5verb
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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- 6verb
do or give something to somebody in return
"Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"
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- 7verb
make reparations or amends for
"right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- 8verb
adjust for
"engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
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- 9verb
make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
"he is compensating for being a bad father"
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