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compensate English

Meaning compensate meaning

What does compensate mean?
Definitions in simple English

compensate Verb

— If you compensate somebody, you give them something because they have lost something or done something for you.

compensate

— verb (= correct) adjust for engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance — verb (= repair) 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 — verb (= remunerate) make payment to; compensate My efforts were not remunerated — verb (= right) make reparations or amends for right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust — verb make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities he is compensating for being a bad father — verb (= pay) do or give something to somebody in return Does she pay you for the work you are doing?

Synonyms compensate synonyms

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compensate English » English

reimburse indemnify recompense pay repay remunerate reward make up for make up make amends redress refund repair offset counterbalance recoup pay back correct atone requite pay for make reparations make good disburse cover counterpoise settle right renumerate redeem pay off overcompensate neutralize indemn even up even out even off equilibrate equalize countervail balance out balance worth the trouble unclog transpose substitute stolen goods spell shift satisfy

Topics compensate topics

What do people use compensate to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Atone, restitution

Conjugation compensate conjugation

How do you conjugate compensate?

compensate · verb

Examples compensate examples

How do I use compensate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Who will compensate for the loss?
I will compensate you for your loss.
Expensive meals can't compensate for lack of sleep.
I worked hard to compensate for the loss.
The insurance company will compensate her for the loss.
Any act whatever of a man, which causes damage to another, obliges the one by whose fault it occurred to compensate it.
You must compensate him for the money he lost.
Money cannot compensate for life.
Diligence may compensate for lack of experience.

Movie subtitles

I am sending with this letter a gift of money. which will compensate you for any disappointment you may feel.
Clapham no longer held Sibella's presence to compensate me for the tedious journey between the suburbs and the city.
Wanted to offer a home. when to leave. to compensate for the suffering.
Our other witnesses, however, I'm sure, will compensate for his absence.
We have adjusted the magnetic field to compensate for the normal loss of gravitational effect and atmospheric pressure.
How can you compensate them for what you have done?
Something to compensate for the months of loneliness.
Does the toppling of American missiles really compensate for having no hands?
I've been authorised to compensate you for any damage done.
If you have any complaints about what I've just said, compensate them first, and then deal with me!
Look here, Magistrate. To atone for trying to tax the farmers twice, you're going to give me a receipt for their taxes, paid in full. And to compensate the farmers for what you put them through, you'll also return their thousand ryo to them.
These excessive acts of humility will not compensate for subservience to the crown.
We can compensate for that.
How does that compensate us?
Will that compensate me for the death of Marie?
I must compensate the personal or there will be trouble.
Compensate for her loss.
I will compensate you.
When we are in Spain I will compensate you for everything.
So I compensate in other ways.
One second of courage does not compensate for years of cowardice.
My uncle will compensate if we save Annibale, and could also give you the command of a century.
Tell me, does toppling American missiles really compensate for having no hands?
With the original deed in our possession, the government must compensate us.
But surely they'll compensate you for the damage.
Yes, to compensate.
Number 18 is three minutes late, she'll have to compensate come the next break.
Good things and bad things compensate for one another.
Will you take the risk to have to compensate for 30000 ryos?
To compensate.
We've attached to some bypass and leader circuits to compensate for the difference, tied directly into the impulse engines.
Compensate, Mr. Riley.
Compensate with the respirator.
Compensate.
Mr. Kyle, you were instructed to compensate during the ion storm.

News and current affairs

Bottom trawling should simply be outlawed; it would be simple and inexpensive to compensate the fishing industry during a transition to other activities.
Today's problems are compounded by a lack of sufficient private demand - particularly household consumption - in the advanced economies to compensate for demand losses stemming from austerity.
It also requires a substantial reform of the monetary union's system of economic governance, aimed at restoring financial stability and lowering borrowing costs, together with a boost in external demand in order to compensate for the effects of austerity.
In other words, taxpayers win, because the benefits from the healthier economy would more than compensate for the costs of servicing the higher national debt, enabling the government to provide more services without raising tax rates.
Instead of looking at the wrong model - that of a single state - the EU and its member states should focus on the conditions required for the proper functioning of a currency union that has no common budget to compensate for asymmetric shocks.
Yet, the 15 member states may compensate for their collective failure of nerve by opening up easier options for flexible or multi-speed integration.
High interest rate compensate for the risk that Argentina might stop paying the debts or devalue the currency or both.
But no amount of external assistance can compensate for a lack of motivation and commitment.
On the one hand, they can compensate for the global weakness by turbo-charging their own internal demand through aggressive fiscal stimulus.
If the dollar has already fallen - if nobody expects it to fall much more - then there is no reason to compensate global savers and investors for holding US assets.
But countries that saved too much - China, emerging Asia, Germany, and Japan - are not spending more to compensate for the fall in spending by deleveraging countries.
There is nothing we can do now to compensate for failures to manage risks in the past.
The continent needs productivity-enhancing investment in order to compensate for its shrinking workforce; but its demographic weakness is causing companies to hold back.
Europeans certainly need something to compensate for a short working life with many vacations.
Constrained from spending on the wedding, he would compensate her differently - perhaps with a larger inheritance.
It would be unable to compensate for that loss by relying on Lebanese seaports or Beirut's airport, because both could easily be blockaded.
They demonstrate clearly that China is prepared to compensate for export weakness by stimulating domestic demand.
Thus, there is a growing convergence between Chinese and G-7 economic policy, born of the need to compensate for massive failures in US financial regulation and monetary policy.
The irony is that, to compensate for a crisis that America's own policies have created in global financial markets, the US is now getting what it has long sought from China.
To compensate for the negative impact on GDP growth, and with export growth constrained by weak global demand, consumption must rise even more sharply, which is hard to imagine.

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