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Keywords: remunerate, reparation, recompense, amends, wrong

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; 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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To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.

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To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

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To make satisfactory payment or reparation to; recompense or reimburse

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(1) To pay or remunerate for some work; (2) To make up for some lack of ability or acuity.

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to provide a financial remedy (in law) for some injury or loss Defendants cannot be expected to compensate the world at large. compensation (n)

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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"

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make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

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make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"

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to offset an error or wrong committed, most often in the form of money.

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To give one party money or other benefits to make up for a loss or problem.

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Keywords: shortcomings, exaggerating, inferiority, father, bad

make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities; "he is compensating for being a bad father"

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Keywords: somebody, something, return, doing, way

do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?"

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To do something another way. (TG)

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Keywords: correct, resistance, engineers, air, adjust

adjust or make up for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"

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