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Make financial amends to
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compensate
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Word definitions for compensate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compensate \Com"pen*sate\, v. i. To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "to be equivalent;" 1650s, "to counterbalance, make up for," from Latin compensatus , past participle of compensare "to weigh one thing (against another)," thus, "to counterbalance," from com- "with" (see com- ) + pensare , frequentative of pendere ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration. 2 (context ambitransitive English) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literal ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: counterbalance , correct , even out , even off , even up ] make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB adequately ▪ Accordingly, adjustment via the exchange rate was not able to compensate adequately for long-term changes in competitive conditions. ▪ Critics also charge that ratepayers were not adequately compensated ...
Usage examples of compensate.
The full name of this creek is El Rio de las Animas Arrepentidas en Limbo, or the River of the Compensating Souls in the Borderland of Limes.
She had lost weight during the voyage, the lack of exercise more than compensated by the dearth of appetising food.
He had no beard, but compensated for it with a luxuriant Bismarckian mustache.
Two young Bloodletters had entered the Circle and were rubbing his body with drugged oils which would combat exhaustion and compensate for the overdrive state he had fought in.
The interest of a riparian owner in keeping the level of a navigable stream low enough to maintain a power head for his use was not one for which he was entitled to be compensated when the Government raised the level by erecting a dam to improve navigation.
I am still convinced that the apparent ostentation would be more than compensated by real use.
The inferiority of number was, however, compensated by the advantage of the ground.
The loss of sensual pleasure was supplied and compensated by spiritual pride.
These evils, however terrible they may appear, were confined to the smaller number of Roman subjects, whose dangerous situation was in some degree compensated by the enjoyment of those advantages, either of nature or of fortune, which exposed them to the jealousy of the monarch.
These losses, however, were compensated by splendid and decisive success.
These imperfections, however, are compensated in some degree by the poetical virtues of Claudian.
Eutropius seem to have compensated for the folly of the design by any superior merit or ability in the execution.
But the sylvan deities were less implacable, and the extirpation of a more valuable tree was compensated by the moderate fine of twenty-five pounds of copper.
Nor are the defects of the subject compensated by the skill and variety of the painters.
Mahomet compensated the loss, by resigning to the soldiers his fifth of the plunder, and wished, for their sake, that he possessed as many head of cattle as there were trees in the province of Tehama.