compensatev.

/ˈkɒmpənseɪt/

/kəmˈpɛnseɪt/

Etymology: < Latin compensāt- participial stem of compensāre to weigh one thing against another, counterbalance, etc., < com- + pensāre , frequent. of pendĕre to weigh. Compare compense v.The first pronunciation is that now usual in England, but appears to be quite recent; pronouncing dictionaries had until c1850–70 only the other, which is also that of the 18th cent. poets. Tennyson has both: (ˈcompensated) in the Princess 1847.

a. transitive. To counterbalance, make up for, make amends for.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > balance against or counterbalance

gaina1375

counterpoise1393

peisea1400

weigh1583

set1589

poise1600

to weigh against, again1600

affront1609

balance1624

cancel1633

counterbalance1636

counterpose1636

compensate1656

equilibriatea1657

outset1656

equiponderate1661

equipoise1664

equibalance1665

offset1673

countersway1710

to set off1749

counterweigh1825

equilibrate1829

to set against ——1832

equilibrize1833

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for

restorea1325

to make good1389

boot1393

rewarda1398

supplya1398

to make up1472

upset1513

to fetch again1535

redeem1590

balance1594

pay1596

unpay1600

to make out1610

requitea1613

to pay home1625

encourage1628

compensate1646

compensate1656

reprise1662

to take up1662

to fetch up1665

to pay off1717

indemnify1750

to bring up arrears1788

equalize1866

reparate1956

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty (1662) 81 Those happy delusions, whereby we..compensate those our deformities.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xiv. 541 To compensate their neglect.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. i. 6 The benefit of it would not compensate the danger.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 181 Each seeming want compensated of course.

1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 15 Still, to compensate toils and hazards past.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 152 The opposite errors may..compensate each other exactly.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 30 For often fineness compensated size.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1871) III. v. 378 His native strength may compensate the defects of his equipment.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 14 Not being bred To barter, nor compensating the want By shrewdness.

b. Const. with (an equivalent), by (an action).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for

restorea1325

to make good1389

boot1393

rewarda1398

supplya1398

to make up1472

upset1513

to fetch again1535

redeem1590

balance1594

pay1596

unpay1600

to make out1610

requitea1613

to pay home1625

encourage1628

compensate1646

compensate1656

reprise1662

to take up1662

to fetch up1665

to pay off1717

indemnify1750

to bring up arrears1788

equalize1866

reparate1956

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 144 She compensates the death of the father by the..murder of the mother.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 549 That they may compensate the barrennesse of the ground with the multitude of Cattell.

1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. 20 Compensating good with good, and not with evil.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 768 Compensating his loss By supplemental shifts, the best he may.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 134 Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 684 The loss of water..not being compensated by absorption from below.

c. to a person.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > pay as compensation [verb (transitive)] > compensate (a person)

content1418

compensate1778

1778 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 248 To compensate to us in the east what we have lost irrecoverably in the west.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 35 To compensate to the Venetians..the spoliation they had suffered.

d. absol. To make compensation or amends.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate > make good or make up for

compensate1660

to make up1711

indemn1906

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 176 in Justice Vindicated Let us..abstain from all wickedness for the future, and duly compensate.

1774 T. Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 25 If it..has defects..it has beauties and delicacies which amply compensate.

2. intransitive. To be an equivalent, to make up for.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate

supererogate1582

compensate1648

commute1653

compense1825

to take up the slack1930

1648 Ch.-lands not to be sold 42 What proportion of carnall things can compensate for things spirituall.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 85 There is in every condition somewhat of good compensating for its evils, and reducing it to a balance with other..states.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 434 Solicitous how best He may compensate for a day of sloth By works of darkness.

a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 71 Which could never be compensated for by..attention.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiii. 409 Skill might compensate for defective numbers.

3. transitive. To make equal return to, to recompense or remunerate (a person, etc.) for anything.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > treat one as he has been treated [verb (transitive)] > requite or pay back (a person)

foryield971

to quit or yield (one) his whilec1175

acquitc1300

quitc1330

restore?a1400

refound1438

requite1530

regrate?c1550

repay1557

redub1558

quittance1590

to meet witha1593

to pay (a person) (off) scot and lot1598

meeta1625

retaliate1629

reimburse1644

compensate1804

to even up on1879

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > pay as compensation [verb (transitive)] > compensate for

yieldeOE

compound1555

compromise1757

compensate1804

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 519 To compensate yourself for your rent and services.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 131 I should at least secure my own, And be in part compensated .

1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. v. 228 Navigable rivers..seem to compensate South America for its deficiency in coal-beds.

a. Mechanics. To provide with mechanical compensation; to make up for (the variations to which a pendulum is liable). transitive and intransitive.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for > mechanically

compensate1850

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate > mechanically

compensate1871

1819 [implied in: A. Rees Cycl. XXVI. at Pendulum Graham's mercurial pendulum..may be considered as the first compensating pendulum. (at compensating-pendulum at compensating adj. b)].

1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lviii. 84 We want therefore some contrivance which will compensate this expansion of the rod.

1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lviii. 274 If the pendulum is not compensated it must be of wood.

1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) 79 The first who attempted to compensate for change of length of a pendulum was Mr. Graham, an English clockmaker.

b. To correct an electrical device or circuit for (some undesired characteristic or effect); to provide with compensation (compensation n. 1d).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > connect [verb (transitive)] > correct for undesired effect

compensate1872

1872 J. B. Stearns Brit. Patent 3344 2 The effect of static induction in operating either land lines or submarine cables is neutralized or compensated for.

1961 A. E. Fitzgerald & C. Kingsley Electr. Machinery (ed. 2) viii. 390 These limitations may be considerably extended by compensating or neutralizing the armature mmf under the pole faces.

5. Psychology. To conceal or counterbalance a defect of character, physique, etc., or to make up for the frustration of a tendency or desire, by developing or exaggerating some other (sometimes more desirable) characteristic. transitive and intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > making up for defect > make up for defect [verb]

compensate1914

1914 C. G. Jung in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 964/2 We..find here these compensating vices to be an essential content of the unconscious. Obviously, therefore, the reverse is true—namely that unconscious virtues compensate for conscious deficiencies.

1921 E. J. Kempf Psychopathol. (new ed.) i. 69 If the cause of fear is a segmental compulsion within ourselves.., an attempt to compensate by some estimable work is reflexly initiated.

1927 Corrie ABC of Jung's Psychol. ii. 38 Here the one-sidedness of the conscious attitude is compensated by personal sensitiveness, infantile feelings, doubts, and irrational superstitions.

1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry vi. 111 Where the attributes of the self are conceived as lacking in some of the qualities of the ideal self, the self makes an attempt to compensate in one direction what is lacking in another.

1929 A. Adler Probl. Neurosis iv. 56 There are many children..who are at a..disadvantage through weak muscles and poor eyesight, but they may compensate in directions which will lead them to be acrobats or artists.

1963 J. E. Gordon Personality & Behavior iv. ix. 427 A young man afraid of marriage may compensate by specializing in dating and courting, becoming a ‘man about town’.

Derivatives

ˈcompensated adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > compensating > mechanically compensating or compensated

compensating-balance1819

compensated1881

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [adjective] > corrected for wrong effect

compensated1881

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > dynamo > [adjective] > corrected for wrong effect

compensated1881

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective] > relating to forces in equilibrium > of equilibrium: balanced > adjusted to

compensated1881

1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 84 A cheap..compensated pendulum may be made with a wood rod and lead bob.

1896 D. C. Jackson & J. P. Jackson Alternating Currents II. 316 The Westinghouse, so-called, ‘compensated voltmeter’.

1896 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 5) 800 Compensated armatures.

1909 C. F. Smith Pract. Altern. Currents (ed. 3) xii. 427 A compensated motor will start from rest with a low power-factor.

1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors iii. 31 The use of compensated chambers in which there are three electrodes.

ˈcompensating n.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation

compensation1387

countervailment1594

supererogating1617

equation1666

compensating1668

upmaking1669

requital1885

weightage1906

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 39 Compensating, recompense.

Draft additions March 2016

compensated dating n. (in Japan and Hong Kong) a form of paid escort work in which a young woman provides companionship or sexual favours to an older man in exchange for money or luxury items; = enjo kosai n. [Originally after Japanese enjo kōsai enjo kosai n. (also shortened to enkō ); with use with reference to Hong Kong compare Chinese (Cantonese) wùhn joh gāau jai and wùhn gāau , representing the Cantonese pronunciation of the characters used to write the Japanese words (although compare also Chinese (Cantonese) gāau jai social interaction: see enjo kosai n.).]

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1996 Japan Times 15 July 20 Japan is now confronted by a growing group of young prostitutes who think of their activity as enjo kosai or compensated dating.

2004 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 15/8 ‘Compensated dating’ is recognised as a nationwide phenomenon, with girls often using the money to buy goods such as Burberry scarves and Louis Vuitton handbags.

2014 China Daily (Hong Kong ed.) (Nexis) 10 Dec. The victim had a history of compensated dating and modeling for amateur photographers.

Draft additions September 2018

compensated dollar n. U.S. Economics (now historical) a form of currency proposed by U.S. economist Irving Fisher (1867–1947) at the beginning of the 20th cent., whose gold value would be adjusted periodically on the basis of the market price of a number of basic commodities; = commodity dollar n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > currency systems and policies

decimal currency1824

bimetallism1876

monometallism1878

free silver1889

polymetallism1890

silverism1895

symmetallism1895

trimetallism1897

managed currency1898

single currency1900

compensated dollar1912

commodity dollar1918

soft currency1940

1912 I. Fisher Let. in N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 10/7 He raises as an objection to the plan for ‘a compensated dollar’, recently discussed before the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, the practical difficulty of getting an international agreement to adopt the plan.

1934 W. E. Atkins Gold & your Money 32 The compensated dollar, or a dollar with changing gold content, would go hand in hand with the policy of the Federal Reserve System.

2005 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 64 10 His [sc. Fisher's] monetary economics, from the equation of exchange through index numbers to the compensated dollar, was united by a concern with the consequences of imperfectly expected monetary shocks.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	compensate
释义	compensatev. /ˈkɒmpənseɪt//kəmˈpɛnseɪt/ Etymology: < Latin compensāt- participial stem of compensāre to weigh one thing against another, counterbalance, etc., < com- + pensāre , frequent. of pendĕre to weigh. Compare compense v.The first pronunciation is that now usual in England, but appears to be quite recent; pronouncing dictionaries had until c1850–70 only the other, which is also that of the 18th cent. poets. Tennyson has both: (ˈcompensated) in the Princess 1847. 1. a. transitive. To counterbalance, make up for, make amends for. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > balance against or counterbalance gaina1375 counterpoise1393 peisea1400 weigh1583 set1589 poise1600 to weigh against, again1600 affront1609 balance1624 cancel1633 counterbalance1636 counterpose1636 compensate1656 equilibriatea1657 outset1656 equiponderate1661 equipoise1664 equibalance1665 offset1673 countersway1710 to set off1749 counterweigh1825 equilibrate1829 to set against ——1832 equilibrize1833 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for restorea1325 to make good1389 boot1393 rewarda1398 supplya1398 to make up1472 upset1513 to fetch again1535 redeem1590 balance1594 pay1596 unpay1600 to make out1610 requitea1613 to pay home1625 encourage1628 compensate1646 compensate1656 reprise1662 to take up1662 to fetch up1665 to pay off1717 indemnify1750 to bring up arrears1788 equalize1866 reparate1956 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty (1662) 81 Those happy delusions, whereby we..compensate those our deformities. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. xiv. 541 To compensate their neglect. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. i. 6 The benefit of it would not compensate the danger. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 181 Each seeming want compensated of course. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 15 Still, to compensate toils and hazards past. 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 152 The opposite errors may..compensate each other exactly. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 30 For often fineness compensated size. a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1871) III. v. 378 His native strength may compensate the defects of his equipment. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 14 Not being bred To barter, nor compensating the want By shrewdness. b. Const. with (an equivalent), by (an action). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for restorea1325 to make good1389 boot1393 rewarda1398 supplya1398 to make up1472 upset1513 to fetch again1535 redeem1590 balance1594 pay1596 unpay1600 to make out1610 requitea1613 to pay home1625 encourage1628 compensate1646 compensate1656 reprise1662 to take up1662 to fetch up1665 to pay off1717 indemnify1750 to bring up arrears1788 equalize1866 reparate1956 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi. 144 She compensates the death of the father by the..murder of the mother. View more context for this quotation 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 549 That they may compensate the barrennesse of the ground with the multitude of Cattell. 1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. Nat. Relig. 20 Compensating good with good, and not with evil. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 768 Compensating his loss By supplemental shifts, the best he may. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 134 Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 684 The loss of water..not being compensated by absorption from below. c. to a person. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > pay as compensation [verb (transitive)] > compensate (a person) content1418 compensate1778 1778 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 248 To compensate to us in the east what we have lost irrecoverably in the west. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 35 To compensate to the Venetians..the spoliation they had suffered. d. absol. To make compensation or amends. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate > make good or make up for compensate1660 to make up1711 indemn1906 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 176 in Justice Vindicated Let us..abstain from all wickedness for the future, and duly compensate. 1774 T. Twining Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 25 If it..has defects..it has beauties and delicacies which amply compensate. 2. intransitive. To be an equivalent, to make up for. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate supererogate1582 compensate1648 commute1653 compense1825 to take up the slack1930 1648 Ch.-lands not to be sold 42 What proportion of carnall things can compensate for things spirituall. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 85 There is in every condition somewhat of good compensating for its evils, and reducing it to a balance with other..states. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 434 Solicitous how best He may compensate for a day of sloth By works of darkness. a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 71 Which could never be compensated for by..attention. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiii. 409 Skill might compensate for defective numbers. 3. transitive. To make equal return to, to recompense or remunerate (a person, etc.) for anything. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > treat one as he has been treated [verb (transitive)] > requite or pay back (a person) foryield971 to quit or yield (one) his whilec1175 acquitc1300 quitc1330 restore?a1400 refound1438 requite1530 regrate?c1550 repay1557 redub1558 quittance1590 to meet witha1593 to pay (a person) (off) scot and lot1598 meeta1625 retaliate1629 reimburse1644 compensate1804 to even up on1879 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > pay as compensation [verb (transitive)] > compensate for yieldeOE compound1555 compromise1757 compensate1804 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 519 To compensate yourself for your rent and services. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 131 I should at least secure my own, And be in part compensated . View more context for this quotation 1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. v. 228 Navigable rivers..seem to compensate South America for its deficiency in coal-beds. 4. a. Mechanics. To provide with mechanical compensation; to make up for (the variations to which a pendulum is liable). transitive and intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for > mechanically compensate1850 the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate > mechanically compensate1871 1819 [implied in: A. Rees Cycl. XXVI. at Pendulum Graham's mercurial pendulum..may be considered as the first compensating pendulum. (at compensating-pendulum at compensating adj. b)]. 1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lviii. 84 We want therefore some contrivance which will compensate this expansion of the rod. 1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lviii. 274 If the pendulum is not compensated it must be of wood. 1871 B. Stewart Heat (ed. 2) 79 The first who attempted to compensate for change of length of a pendulum was Mr. Graham, an English clockmaker. b. To correct an electrical device or circuit for (some undesired characteristic or effect); to provide with compensation (compensation n. 1d). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > connect [verb (transitive)] > correct for undesired effect compensate1872 1872 J. B. Stearns Brit. Patent 3344 2 The effect of static induction in operating either land lines or submarine cables is neutralized or compensated for. 1961 A. E. Fitzgerald & C. Kingsley Electr. Machinery (ed. 2) viii. 390 These limitations may be considerably extended by compensating or neutralizing the armature mmf under the pole faces. 5. Psychology. To conceal or counterbalance a defect of character, physique, etc., or to make up for the frustration of a tendency or desire, by developing or exaggerating some other (sometimes more desirable) characteristic. transitive and intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > making up for defect > make up for defect [verb] compensate1914 1914 C. G. Jung in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Dec. 964/2 We..find here these compensating vices to be an essential content of the unconscious. Obviously, therefore, the reverse is true—namely that unconscious virtues compensate for conscious deficiencies. 1921 E. J. Kempf Psychopathol. (new ed.) i. 69 If the cause of fear is a segmental compulsion within ourselves.., an attempt to compensate by some estimable work is reflexly initiated. 1927 Corrie ABC of Jung's Psychol. ii. 38 Here the one-sidedness of the conscious attitude is compensated by personal sensitiveness, infantile feelings, doubts, and irrational superstitions. 1927 D. K. Henderson & R. D. Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry vi. 111 Where the attributes of the self are conceived as lacking in some of the qualities of the ideal self, the self makes an attempt to compensate in one direction what is lacking in another. 1929 A. Adler Probl. Neurosis iv. 56 There are many children..who are at a..disadvantage through weak muscles and poor eyesight, but they may compensate in directions which will lead them to be acrobats or artists. 1963 J. E. Gordon Personality & Behavior iv. ix. 427 A young man afraid of marriage may compensate by specializing in dating and courting, becoming a ‘man about town’. Derivatives ˈcompensated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > compensating > mechanically compensating or compensated compensating-balance1819 compensated1881 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > motor > [adjective] > corrected for wrong effect compensated1881 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > dynamo > [adjective] > corrected for wrong effect compensated1881 the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > statics > [adjective] > relating to forces in equilibrium > of equilibrium: balanced > adjusted to compensated1881 1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 84 A cheap..compensated pendulum may be made with a wood rod and lead bob. 1896 D. C. Jackson & J. P. Jackson Alternating Currents II. 316 The Westinghouse, so-called, ‘compensated voltmeter’. 1896 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery (ed. 5) 800 Compensated armatures. 1909 C. F. Smith Pract. Altern. Currents (ed. 3) xii. 427 A compensated motor will start from rest with a low power-factor. 1963 B. Fozard Instrumentation Nucl. Reactors iii. 31 The use of compensated chambers in which there are three electrodes. ˈcompensating n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation compensation1387 countervailment1594 supererogating1617 equation1666 compensating1668 upmaking1669 requital1885 weightage1906 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 39 Compensating, recompense. Draft additions March 2016 compensated dating n. (in Japan and Hong Kong) a form of paid escort work in which a young woman provides companionship or sexual favours to an older man in exchange for money or luxury items; = enjo kosai n. [Originally after Japanese enjo kōsai enjo kosai n. (also shortened to enkō ); with use with reference to Hong Kong compare Chinese (Cantonese) wùhn joh gāau jai and wùhn gāau , representing the Cantonese pronunciation of the characters used to write the Japanese words (although compare also Chinese (Cantonese) gāau jai social interaction: see enjo kosai n.).] ΚΠ 1996 Japan Times 15 July 20 Japan is now confronted by a growing group of young prostitutes who think of their activity as enjo kosai or compensated dating. 2004 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 15/8 ‘Compensated dating’ is recognised as a nationwide phenomenon, with girls often using the money to buy goods such as Burberry scarves and Louis Vuitton handbags. 2014 China Daily (Hong Kong ed.) (Nexis) 10 Dec. The victim had a history of compensated dating and modeling for amateur photographers. Draft additions September 2018 compensated dollar n. U.S. Economics (now historical) a form of currency proposed by U.S. economist Irving Fisher (1867–1947) at the beginning of the 20th cent., whose gold value would be adjusted periodically on the basis of the market price of a number of basic commodities; = commodity dollar n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > currency systems and policies decimal currency1824 bimetallism1876 monometallism1878 free silver1889 polymetallism1890 silverism1895 symmetallism1895 trimetallism1897 managed currency1898 single currency1900 compensated dollar1912 commodity dollar1918 soft currency1940 1912 I. Fisher Let. in N.Y. Times 18 Oct. 10/7 He raises as an objection to the plan for ‘a compensated dollar’, recently discussed before the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, the practical difficulty of getting an international agreement to adopt the plan. 1934 W. E. Atkins Gold & your Money 32 The compensated dollar, or a dollar with changing gold content, would go hand in hand with the policy of the Federal Reserve System. 2005 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 64 10 His [sc. Fisher's] monetary economics, from the equation of exchange through index numbers to the compensated dollar, was united by a concern with the consequences of imperfectly expected monetary shocks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1646
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