Compensation
[kɒmpen'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑmpɛn'seʃən]
Definition
(noun.) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury).
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors.
Checked by Chiquita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or principle of compensating.
(n.) That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
(n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
(n.) A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(n.) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
Inputed by Donald
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Recompense, remuneration, reward.[2]. Requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends.
Edited by Antony
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution,satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages
ANT:Deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage
Edited by Estelle
Examples
- The smoke, gases, and ashes left in the path of a raging forest fire are no compensation to us for the valuable timber destroyed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But what, said Mr. Jaggers, swinging his purse,--what if it was in my instructions to make you a present, as compensation? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Here it should be said that the Wrights are as excellent business men as they are inventors, and intend to receive due compensation for their years of work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But, in compensation, there have been several joint-stock companies which have failed, and which he has omitted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A compensation of 5000_l. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It involved the principle of inductive compensation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am quite sure that it is the only compensation you have left it in your power to make. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child--what come to the forge--and ever the best of friends! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The employer must have this compensation, otherwise he cannot, consistently with his own interest, continue the employment. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It's his only compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When night fell he was then more at rest, for in sleep he found a certain amount of compensation for the woes of his waking hours. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The belief in such compensation is a great opiate for present miseries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So this was what he was asking about; the compensation of irregular service. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is such unspeakable moral compensation to Wegg, to be overcome by the consideration that Mr Rokesmith has an underhanded mind! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What do you--that is, what compensation-- began Jo, not exactly knowing how to express herself. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She finds compensations, no doubt--I know she borrows money of Gus--but then I'd PAY her to keep him in a good humour, so I can't complain, after all. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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