Definitions for compensation

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compensation com·pen·sa·tion

Spelling: [kom-puh n-sey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃən/

Compensation is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 1750 anagrams from letters in compensation (aceimnnoopst).

Definitions for compensation

noun

1. the act or state of compensating, as by rewarding someone for service or by making up for someone's loss, damage, or injury by giving the injured party an appropriate benefit.
2. the state of being compensated or rewarded in this way.
3. something given or received as an equivalent for services, debt, loss, injury, suffering, lack, etc.; indemnity:
4. Biology. the improvement of any defect by the excessive development or action of another structure or organ of the same structure.
5. Psychology. a mechanism by which an individual attempts to make up for some real or imagined deficiency of personality or behavior by developing or stressing another aspect of the personality or by substituting a different form of behavior.

Origin of compensation

1350-1400; Middle English compensacioun Latin compēnsātiōn- (stem of compēnsātiō), equivalent to compēnsāt(us) (see compensate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for compensation

Their families do not receive any compensation or any moral support from the state.

That precludes paying much mind to attribution or compensation.

If I carried with me a sad heart, there yet were already visible the dawnings of compensation.

How could we trust our lives in the hands of people that are overworked, starved and not given their just compensation?

She had learned the law of compensation: that for every joy one pays in suffering.

Had they still been in his possession, that would have been some compensation.

All sorts of labor is got at enormous rates of compensation.

If he acts in good faith he is not obnoxious to punishment--but entitled to compensation?

An industry source said Pippa's compensation will be in the Chelsea Clinton range.

At first glance, it might be tempting to interpret this extravagant level of compensation as a victory for the once-humble intern.