compensate
Etymology
Synonyms
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin compensatus, past participle of compensare ("to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good, later also shorten, spare"), from com- ("together") + pensare ("to weight").
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/, /ˈkɒm.pɛn.seɪt/
- (America) IPA: /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/
- (Australia) IPA: /ˈkɔm.penˌsæɪt/
compensate (compensates, present participle compensating; simple past and past participle compensated)
- To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
- To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- Synonyms: make up
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
- 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC ↗, (please specify the page):, Preface
- The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
- To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
- To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Conjugation of compensate
infinitive | (to) compensate | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | compensate | compensated | |
2nd-person singular | compensate, compensatest† | compensated, compensatedst† | |
3rd-person singular | compensates, compensateth† | compensated | |
plural | compensate | ||
subjunctive | compensate | compensated | |
imperative | compensate | — | |
participles | compensating | compensated |
†Archaic or obsolete.
- (to do something good) See Thesaurus:compensate
- (to pay) guerdon, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse
- (to make up for) See Thesaurus:atone or Thesaurus:offset
- (to adjust to a change) acclimatize, acclimate, accommodate, accustom, adapt; see also Thesaurus:accustom
- equate
- offset
- redeem
- accord
- reconcile
- harmonize
- atone
- indemnify
- requite
- rectify
- level
- resolve
- square
- amend
- expiate
- redress
- remedy
- remunerate
- appease
- restitute and restitution
- German: kompensieren, ausgleichen, wiedergutmachen
- Italian: compensare
- Russian: компенси́ровать
- German: ausgleichen, aufwiegen
- Italian: bilanciare
- Russian: скомпенси́ровать
- German: eine Kompensation zahlen , vergüten, entgelten
- Italian: compensare
- Portuguese: compensar, recompensar, pagar
- Russian: заплатить
- French: compenser
- German: kompensieren, ausgleichen, wettmachen, ausbügeln
- Portuguese: compensar, recompensar
- Russian: компенси́ровать
- German: ausgleichen, etwas dagegensetzen
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