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Word Meanings - COMPENSATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

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prop., to weigh several things with one another, to balance with one 1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; 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.

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  • MODIFY
    1. To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract. 2. To limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • REPAYMENT
    1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
  • REWARDFUL
    Yielding reward.
  • PUNISHER
    One who inflicts punishment.
  • NEUTRALIZE
    To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base. 3. To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference
  • REWARD
    To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord. Piers Plowman. Thou hast rewarded
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • ALTERNATION
    Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
  • REIMBURSEMENT
    The act reimbursing. A. Hamilton.
  • COUNTERACT
    To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
  • DISBURSE
    To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • EXCHANGE EDITOR
    An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
  • DISBURSEMENT
    1. The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes. 2. That which is disbursed or paid out; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income.
  • COUNTERVAIL
    To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences
  • ALTERNAT
    A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
  • ALTERATION
    1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
  • BARTER
    To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. (more info) fr. Gr. to do, deal , use practices or tricks, or perh.
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • SUBALTERNANT
    A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • MISALTER
    To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
  • SHOREWARD
    Toward the shore.
  • UNLIQUIDATED
    Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
  • REEXCHANGE
    To exchange anew; to reverse .

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