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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compensate
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 in the deal.
▪ If it did not, the plaintiff would be adequately compensated by damages.
for
▪ Deliberately, the colour has little force, but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety.
▪ Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road.
▪ However, in the past, these businesses have been compensated for by very high profits when the business reaches take-off point.
▪ The alleged deficiency is compensated for by a neurologically based preference for Chomskian grammars.
▪ Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time, and weather conditions remain favourable.
▪ Variations between local areas' needs can be measured and compensated for in national grants.
fully
▪ They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.
▪ Admittedly these recipes call for extravagant amounts but you can compensate by eating smaller portions.
▪ Therefore, no amount of personality can compensate for mediocre chili. o Judging chili is very personal and subjective.
▪ This amount is called a compensating balance and effectively raises the cost of interest. are as previously specified.
damages
▪ In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit.
▪ Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through.
family
▪ Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour.
government
▪ Tourism industry leaders have called on the government to compensate them as well as the airlines.
▪ They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.
▪ Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession?
injury
▪ Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence, but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries.
investment
▪ Some investment managers may compensate by making a slight switch in emphasis towards capital growth investments and away from high yielding equities.
lack
▪ Not all such performances are inspiring, however, and a plenitude of decibels does not compensate for lack of quality.
▪ People got snappy, and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave.
▪ Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment.
▪ No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law.
▪ Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity.
loss
▪ Tire companies therefore compensated for larger losses on tires sold to car makers by raising their margins on retail sales.
▪ The girl compensates for her loss by maintaining connectedness with others.
▪ But here again the gain in freedom from aversive stimulation may compensate for any loss of admiration.
▪ Congress is considering a supplemental appropriation to help compensate for that loss, Moos said.
▪ The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss.
▪ He will get one year with Cleveland to return to elite status and compensate for loss of Ramirez.
▪ After abandoning an appeal against the decision, Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings.
▪ He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
money
▪ But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain.
▪ But there was enough money to compensate farmers, and claims were being worked on as fast as possible.
▪ No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.
▪ Both are using the power of privilege and big corporate money to compensate for their mediocrity.
plaintiff
▪ Damages are awarded to compensate the plaintiff for the injury to his reputation and the hurt to his feelings.
price
▪ The rural poor were not compensated by lower prices or by the greater availability of jobs for wives and children.
▪ The area aid is meant to be compensating for the price cuts.
risk
▪ The outcome will be influenced by their effort, but they need to be heavily compensated for bearing risks.
▪ Several estimates of the extra wage to compensate for risk cluster around $ 200, 000 per death in 1967 dollars.
▪ Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default.
▪ Sure enough, over time, stocks pay a higher return, to compensate for the higher risk.
▪ The yield on junk bonds did not compensate for their risks, for two related reasons.
▪ Hazardous jobs include the risks of both death and injury, and the extra wages compensate both risks.
victim
▪ So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
▪ He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.
▪ This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim.
■ VERB
attempt
▪ Courts were generally regarded as fair, and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage.
try
▪ Shorn of Oliver's physical charisma and reserves of sullen, glowing mystery, Branagh tries to compensate with a pugnacious modernism.
▪ When it occurs, the body defences immediately try to compensate.
▪ Inflation will rise if workers try to compensate for the reduction in purchasing power by bargaining for higher pay.
▪ Lacking fresh tomatoes and meat we tried to compensate by piling tomato paste into all our stews and soups and sauces.
▪ Mr Wahid has tried to compensate for his economic shortcomings by surrounding himself with myriad layers of advisers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.
▪ People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.
▪ The fund will compensate victims of smoking-related diseases.
▪ The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Capital, like labor, was compensated at a rate corresponding to its marginal product.
▪ Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
▪ He was compensated by being raised, on 19 June 1627, to the earldom of Sunderland.
▪ If the company refuses to compensate you, you can take your complaint to small-claims court, Sack said.
▪ Photography could compensate for certain deficiencies in nature.
▪ She had also expressed great anxiety as to who was to compensate her for the loss of her fences and crop.
▪ To compensate, I told him to move to his left on the return of the serve.
▪ Your brain will think it's boiling outside, and compensate by cooling your skin down with a film of sweat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compensate

Compensate \Com"pen*sate\ (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [L. compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one another, verb intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium.]

  1. 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.

  2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.

    The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
    --Bacon.

    The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
    --Prior.

    Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite; counterbalance.

Compensate

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compensate

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 "to weigh" (see pendant). Meaning "to recompense, remunerate" is from 1814. Related: Compensated; compensating.

Wiktionary
compensate

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 or (metaphor) balanced; to equalize or make even. 3 To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

WordNet
compensate

  1. 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]

  2. 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" [syn: recompense, repair, indemnify]

  3. make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father" [syn: cover, overcompensate]

  4. make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, redress, correct] [ant: wrong]

  5. do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" [syn: pay, pay off, make up]

  6. make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated" [syn: recompense, remunerate]

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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.