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compensatory

Word definitions for compensatory in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN allowance ▪ When will he announce an enhanced hill livestock compensatory allowance ? ▪ Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances , amounting to £142 million in a full year. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compensatory \Com*pen"sa*to*ry\, a. Serving for compensation; making amends. --Jer. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from French compensatoire , from Latin compensatus , past participle of compensare (see compensate ). Psychological sense is from 1921.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. compensating for [syn: countervailing , offsetting , compensative ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. That compensates, or serves as compensation

Usage examples of compensatory.

The plasticity means that, although individual brain neurons destroyed as a result of a stroke or brain lesion cannot regenerate, at least in adults, the cells around the damaged area do grow and put out more processes, so that there is some compensatory remoulding of the brain.

Donations and gifts would be given to members of the Mammoth Hearth to appease the Great Mother Spirit with entreaties and explanations, and promises of future good deeds or compensatory activities.

As a compensatory advantage, however, the sledges, once started, glided along with little effort.

Why you'll ask compensatory and triple damages for mental and professional distress.

Look, what you've got here is this judge sitting there reviewing this complaint and their answer under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure looking for grounds for dismissal where they try to claim it's legally insufficient, like it doesn't state a cause of action for a claim where relief can be granted, or they say it fails to allege an essential element of the claim or it alleges some element defectively here where there's these different kinds of damages you're asking for, see you're alleging general damages, compensatory damages, special damages, punitive damages, you comply with these procedural necessities for each one or you're out on your ass.

The Ninth Cause of Action contains the charges that the fraudulent conduct on the part of the defendants as herein alleged was willful, wanton, malicious and in utter disregard of the rights of the plaintiff causing him mental and professional distress and that as a result he is entitled to compensatory and treble or punitive damages, an accounting, a constructive trust for plaintiff's benefit on all profits and gross revenues from The Blood in the Red White and Blue, an injunction stopping its showing unless and until he is credited with his originative role in its creation, interest, costs and reasonable attorney's fees.

Ash's people had exchanged his ability to make things grow for a compensatory ability to create by photosynthesis and other processes.

There's some kind of equationnot a mechanical leveling off, but compensatory gains and losses.

Which will incidentally constitute a record for HEW of the fact that the Augmentor doesn’t loosen your toenails, or harden your arteries, or blow your mind, or indeed have any side effects whatsoever except perhaps a slight compensatory decrease in dreaming sleep tonight.

In practice, this had long ago been commuted to a compensatory land-tax (levied on farm units, not on the owners from whom they were generally rented), for most of the central provinces.

If he did, a case presently worth $20 million, with comps- compensatory damages for lifetime care- might bring one-fifth of that, most of which would go to repay his medical insurer.

However, they may still claim compensatory damages for the loss of data and injury to the parabolic dish.

Maybe there's some compensatory mechanism that cuts in at some point and you'll all just collapse, like an entire fucking gallery of Dorian Grays.

Given however all-over compensatory design despair such as is known to you and known to me, and freakiness, and bearing in mind push-pull as prior to and above all, and disregarding those whose larger pattern security is challenged or threatened by these systematically pulsing alternations, we project your existence here as possibly tolerable within tolerances of .

His dwarfism had crippled him, causing intermittent flashes of agony in his legs, hips, and chest, but he had the upper body strength of an ape (no racial slur intended -- it was a surprising compensatory fact of his unique build), and he refused to let his pain, even when severe, restrict his activity.