compensation

compensation is a 12-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or principle of compensating. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or principle of compensating.
2. noun. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
3. noun. The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
4. noun. A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
5. noun. An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
6. noun. the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

   Synonyms: recompense

7. noun. something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
8. noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

Synonyms

recompense

Common word forms

compensations, compensational

Words from these letters

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