compensatecom‧pen‧sate /ˈkɒmpənseɪt $ ˈkɑːm-/ ●○○ AWL verb 
Word Origin Examples
Because my left eye is so weak, my right eye has to work harder to compensate.compensate for Her intelligence more than compensates for her lack of experience.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say make up for something rather than compensate for something:· What she lacks in patience she makes up for in determination.2[transitive] to pay someone money because they have suffered injury, loss, or damage: the government’s promise to compensate victims of the floodcompensate somebody for something The firm will compensate workers for their loss of earnings.GRAMMAR: Patterns with compensate• Something compensates for something: · Nothing can compensate for this loss. ✗Don’t say: Nothing can compensate this loss.• You compensate someone for something: · We will compensate you for your expenses. ✗Don’t say: We will compensate you your expenses.
Word OriginWORD ORIGINcompensate
Verb TableOrigin:
1600-1700 Latin past participle of compensare, from compendere; ➔ COMPENDIUMVERB TABLE
compensate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | compensate |
| he, she, it | compensates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | compensated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have compensated |
| he, she, it | has compensated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had compensated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will compensate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have compensated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am compensating |
| he, she, it | is compensating | |
| you, we, they | are compensating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was compensating |
| you, we, they | were compensating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been compensating |
| he, she, it | has been compensating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been compensating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be compensating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been compensating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.
- People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.
- The fund will compensate victims of smoking-related diseases.
- The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
- Capital, like labor, was compensated at a rate corresponding to its marginal product.
- Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
- He was compensated by being raised, on 19 June 1627, to the earldom of Sunderland.
- If the company refuses to compensate you, you can take your complaint to small-claims court, Sack said.
- Photography could compensate for certain deficiencies in nature.
- She had also expressed great anxiety as to who was to compensate her for the loss of her fences and crop.
- To compensate, I told him to move to his left on the return of the serve.
- Your brain will think it's boiling outside, and compensate by cooling your skin down with a film of sweat.
Longman Language Activatorto make two numbers, amounts, situations etc equal► balance
Collocations · As a parent trying to balance home and career, it's very difficult to find time for a social life.balance something with something · No government so far has been able to balance the number of jobs available with the number of people out of work.
► equalize also equalise British to change things so that people are treated equally, especially in their employment: · The Association of Women Teachers in New York fought to equalize male and female pay.· Miners demanded a standard rate throughout the country to equalize wages.
► balance out if two amounts, numbers etc balance out , they become equal or have an equal effect, especially if this happens over a fairly long period of time: · Sometimes we have a slight loss and sometimes a slight surplus, but over time they balance out.· Sometimes I do the cooking and sometimes John does - so in the end it all balances out.
► even out if two amounts, or levels even out or you even them out , the differences between them gradually become smaller: even out something: · On cold days the device periodically provides a burst of hot air, to even out the air temperature.even something out: · We want to even the workload out a little, so that no one has more than they can handle.
► strike a balance to achieve a situation in which you give the correct amount of attention and importance to two opposing activities or ideas: · Most reporters are either violently for or violently against the government, but some try to strike a balance.strike a balance between: · School children have to learn to strike a balance between work and play.· Prison reformers are trying to strike a balance between punishing offenders and helping them to avoid repeating their offences.
► redress the balance to make a situation equal or fair again after it has not been fair or equal: · Eventually, if the population of one species rises too much a new epidemic will come along to redress the balance.· Gypsies have often been portrayed as lawless savages, and the film tries to redress the balance by showing their culture as it really is.
► make up for to replace or balance something good that has been lost or something bad that has been done, by providing or doing something good: · Nothing they can do will make up for the damage they have caused.· He had to work twice as hard as the other children to make up for his lack of natural ability.more than make up for (=make up for something very well): · The weather was a bit cold, but the beautiful scenery more than made up for it.
► compensate for to replace or balance something good that has been lost or is lacking, by providing or doing something equally good: · Ray tries to compensate for his shyness by telling a lot of jokes.· It is hoped that the new car's style and design will compensate for its lack of speed.· Failures in this area will have to be compensated for by successes in other areas.
to pay money to someone because they have suffered an injury, loss, damage etc► compensate · People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.compensate for · No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.compensate somebody for something · The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
► damages money that a law court orders someone to pay to you because they have caused you harm: pay somebody damages: · Survivors of the air crash were paid $10000 each in damages.award somebody damages (=agree that damages should be paid): · Damages of £2500 were awarded by the court.
► compensation money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm, loss, or damage to your property: · The government cannot take private property for public use without compensation.pay somebody compensation: · His employers paid him $5000 compensation for his broken leg.compensation for: · See if you can get some compensation from the airline for your lost baggage.
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fund, balance sheet, nounBaltic Exchange, nounbankroll, nounbase rate, nounbasis point, bed-and-breakfasting, nounbellwether, nounbelow the line, adjectivebeneficial owner, best efforts, adjectivebeta coefficient, nounbid and asked, adjectivebill rate, Black Friday, nounBlack Thursday, nounBlack Tuesday, nounBlack Wednesday, nounblank transfer, bond, nounbond fund, bond premium, bookbuilding, nounbook debt, book entry, book-keeper, nounbook-keeping, nounbottom fisher, nounbought deal, bourse, nounbreakeven, nounbreak-up value, buildings and contents insurance, buoy, verbbuoyancy, nounbuoyant, adjectivebusiness angel, nounbusiness entity, business manager, buyback, nounbuy-in, nounbuying power, buying price, buy limit order, buy order, buyout, nouncabinet bid, callable, adjectivecallable fixture, nouncap and collar, nouncapital appreciation, capital asset pricing model, capital charge, capital dilution, nouncapital equipment, capital flow, nouncapital gain, capital invested, nouncapitalization of reserves, nouncapitalize, verbcapitalized, adjectivecapital movement, nouncapital outlay, capital rationing, nouncapital stock, capital sum, capital surplus, capital transfer, capital value, CAR, carried down, adjectivecarried forward, adjectivecarried over, adjectivecarryback, nouncarryforward, nouncarrying charge, carry-over, nouncash account, cash at bank, nouncash basis, nouncashbook, nouncash column, cash equivalent, cash flow, nouncashless, adjectivecash management, cash price, CBOT, c/d, certificate of deposit, nouncertificate of occupancy, nouncertified public accountant, nounCFO, chain of title, nounChapter 7, nounChartered Financial Consultant, nounchartist, nounchattels real, nounChicago Board Options Exchange, nounChicago Mercantile Exchange, nounChinese wall, nounchurning, nounCISCO, nounclawback, nounclean opinion, nounclearer, nounclearing agent, nounclosed-end, adjectiveclosely held, adjectiveCMA, CME, COGS, collection ratio, Comex, nouncomfort letter, commercial agent, common ownership, company doctor, company limited by guarantee, nouncompany limited by shares, nouncomparables, nouncomparable-store sales, compensate, verbcompensating error, completion date, compound, verbcompound annual rate of return, nouncompound interest, nouncomptroller, nounComptroller and Auditor General, nounComptroller General, nounComptroller of the Currency, nouncompulsory purchase order, concert party, nounconsistency concept, nounconsolidated accounts, consolidator, nounConsols, nouncontango, nouncontinuous inventory, contra account, contra-asset account, contract note, controller, nouncontrol period, conversion premium, cooling-off period, nounco-operative society, corporate investment, cost, verbcost of goods sold, nouncounting-house, nouncoupon sheet, nounCPA, nounCPI, cramdown, nouncredit, nouncredit, verbcredit card payment, credit facility, creditor turnover rate, nouncredit quality, credit repair, credit standing, credit status, creeping control, CREST, nouncurrency pair, nouncurrency peg, nounDaily Official List, nounday book, nounday order, dead cat bounce, death futures, debt capital, debt ratio, decliner, noundeed of conveyance, noundeferred credits, noundeferred income, deferred share, degearing, noundeleverage, noundelinquent tax certificate, delivery date, demand note, dematerialize, verbdemonetize, verbdemutualize, verbdenominated, adjectivedeposit certificate, depository institution, deposit protection fund, noundepreciable life, depreciation account, deprival value, derivative lease, direct exchange, direct investment, direct labour, directors register, discount brokerage, discount loan, discretionary account, discretionary order, discretionary spending, diversifieds, noundivestment, nounDJIA, dollar-cost averaging, noundollars-and-cents, adjectivedomestic investment, double declining balance, double-witching, noundown payment, noundowntick, nounDPS, drawdown, noundrawing account, dual capacity, noundual listing, due, adjectivedue diligence, earn, verbEasdaq, nouneconomic, adjectiveeffective rate, emissions unit, encash, verbequity, nounequity investment, ERM, nounerror of commission, nounerror of omission, nounerror of posting, nounerror of principle, nounethical investment, Euribor, nounEuro.NM, nounEuropean interbank offered rate, exceptionals, nounexchange arbitrage, exchange of contracts, nounex gratia, adjectiveexpense ratio, expiration date, face amount, factor cost, factoring, nounfailure, nounfair value, fand, nounFederal funds, fee absolute, nounfigure, nounfinal accounts, final distribution, finance charge, Financial Accounting Standards Board, nounfinancial investment, financials, nounfinancial services, financial supermarket, financial year, nounfinancier, nounfirst in, first out, nounfirst-quarter, adjectivefixed assets, nounfixed costs, nounfixed-income investment, fixed investment, fixtures and fittings, nounfloater, nounflood insurance, flowback, nounflow of funds, nounfocus list, foreign investment, freehold possession, free movement, nounfriends, nounfront-running, nounfull-year, adjectivefully-subscribed, adjectivefunder, nounfungible, adjectivefutures, nounfuture value, FY, G & A, gainer, noungilts, nounGinnie Mae, nounGLOBEX, nounGNMA, noungolden share, golds, noungood-faith money, government investment, greenshoe, noungross, adjectivegross income, gross investment, group accounts, grubstake, nounguaranty, nounhealth warning, nounhigh end, nounhigh flyer, nounhigh-yield, adjectiveHip, nounholding, nounholding company, nounholdout, nounhomeowner's insurance, home repair, household insurance, idle balance, imprest, nouninactive account, incentive fee, income and expenditure account, income share, incubator space, index-linked, adjectiveindirect exchange, industrials, nouninherit, verbinheritance, nouninjection, nounIN.SECTS, nouninstitutional investment, interest cover, International Monetary Fund, nounInternational Securities Exchange, nouninvest, verbinvestment, nouninvestment income, investor, nouninvestor resistance, issuance, nounissue flop, nounissuer, nounkerb market, key money, large-cap, nounlast in, first out, nounlast sale, leaseback, nounleasehold possession, ledger, nounledger clerk, legal investment, lending rate, nounletter of comfort, nounleverage, verblifecycle cost, LIFO, like-for-like, adjectiveliquidity, nounliquid ratio test, loading, nounloan-to-value ratio, London Clearing House, nounM & A, management charge, mandatory general offer, margin account, market order, material fact, nounmature, adjectivematurity, nounmid-cap, nounMMC, mortgage protection insurance, multiple (share) application, municipals, nounNational Market System, nounNational Savings Stock Register, nounNBV, net, adjectivenet, verbnet 10/eom, adverbnet 30, adverbnet annual value, net asset backing, net asset value, net book value, net income, net interest, net investment, net present value, net realizable value, nominal accounts, nominal price, nominal value, non-payment, nounnon-recurring, adjectivenote issuance facility, NPV, NTA, number-cruncher, nounOEIC, offer for sale, nounoff-market, adjectiveon demand, adverbopen interest, nounopen-market, adjectiveopen outcry, nounoperating income, option, nounoption premium, option pricing model, options contract, order-driven, adjectiveorigination, nounoutflow, nounoutturn, nounoutward investment, overallotment, nounoverborrow, verboverbought, adjectiveovercapitalized, adjectiveovergeared, adjectiveoverissue, nounoverlend, verboverseas investment, overtrade, verbowner-operator, nounP&L, packager, nounpaperchase, nounpar value, pass-through, nounpawn, verbpayables, nounpay and file, nounpaying agent, payout ratio, PDR, pension fund, nounpension plan, nounPE ratio, performance guarantee, permission to build, nounpersonal investment, petrodollars, nounPink Sheets, nounplanning application, plat book, pledgee, nounplot plan, pooling of interests, nounpork bellies, nounportfolio, nounpoundage, nounppd., prelease, verbpremium bond, nounpresale, nounprice-sensitive, adjectiveprimary share, prime-1, nounprime tenant, principal, nounprivate company, private income, nounprivate investment, privately-owned, adjectiveprivate placing, proceeds, nounprofit-taking, nounpro-forma, adjectivepro-forma invoice, prompt date, prompt note, property, nounproperty investment, pro rata, adjectiveprorate, verbpublic investment, publicly-held, adjectivepurchase journal, nounpurchases account, purse, nounp.w., quote-driven, adjectiveramping, nounrandom walk, nounratable, adjectiverateable value, rate of return, nounrating agency, real, adjectivereal accounts, real estate investment, realization concept, nounrebound, verbreceiver, nounreceivership, nounrecoup, verbrecuperate, verbred ink, nounredlining, nounrefunding, nounRegional Stock Exchange, nounregistered stock, REIT, nounremarket, verbREMIC, nounremit, verbremittance, nounrent, verbrental, nounrent-free, adjectiverepatriate, verbrepurchase agreement, research manager, reserve requirement, reserves, nounresidual value, resource, verbresults, nounretainer, nounretirement plan, nounreturn, verbreturn, nounrevenue, nounreverse share split, risk analysis, nounrisk profile, ROA, root of title, royalty payment, ruin, verbsale and repurchase agreement, sales account, sales budget, sales charge, sales returns account, salvage value, nounsame-store sales, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, nounsaving, nounSavings and Loan Association, nounSEATS, nounsecondary shares, second-tier share, securities house, security rating, self-dealing, nounself-liquidating, adjectiveSETS, nounsettlement date, settling day, nounshare application, share exchange offer, share manipulation, share split, shark repellent, nounshelf registration, Ship, nounshort-covering, nounshort-term gain, sinking fund, nounsiphon, verbsliding peg, nounsmall-cap, nounSOX, nounspeculate, verbspeculation, nounspeculative, adjectivespeculative investment, squeeze, verbstk., stockbrokerage, nounstock count, nounstockholding, nounstock parking, nounstock valuation, stop order, straight line, adjectivestructural analysis, sublet, verbsubsidize, verbsubsidy, nounsubvention, nounsum of the digits, nounsundries account, super voting rights, sustainability index, swaption, nounsystematic risk, technical analysis, technical analyst, technical correction, technicals, nountenant at sufferance, nountenant at will, nountenant for years, nountenant in common, nounterm, nountippee, nountipper, nountip sheets, nountotal, verbtrading loss, trading profit, transfer, verbtransfer agent, transfer register, trigger point, triple-A, adjectivetriple-witching, nountrue and fair view, nountrust, nountrust company, trustee, nountrusteeship, nountrust fund, nounturnover ratio, undercapitalized, adjectiveundercharge, verbunderfunded, adjectiveunder-investment, noununderreport, verbundervalued, verbunderwriting power, unearned income, ungeared, adjectiveunitize, verbunit of account, noununsystematic risk, upfront fee, uptick, nounvault cash, vendor placing, Wall Street, war chest, nounweak, adjectiveworking capital, nounwrite-off, nounwritten-down value, yield spread, yield to call, nounyield to maturity, nounYTD, YTM, zaitech, nounZ-score, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► adequately
Word family· Accordingly, adjustment via the exchange rate was not able to compensate adequately for long-term changes in competitive conditions.· Critics also charge that ratepayers were not adequately compensated in the deal.· If it did not, the plaintiff would be adequately compensated by damages.
► for· Deliberately, the colour has little force, but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety.· Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road.· However, in the past, these businesses have been compensated for by very high profits when the business reaches take-off point.· The alleged deficiency is compensated for by a neurologically based preference for Chomskian grammars.· Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time, and weather conditions remain favourable.· Variations between local areas' needs can be measured and compensated for in national grants.
► fully· They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.
NOUN► amount· No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.· Admittedly these recipes call for extravagant amounts but you can compensate by eating smaller portions.· Therefore, no amount of personality can compensate for mediocre chili. o Judging chili is very personal and subjective.· This amount is called a compensating balance and effectively raises the cost of interest. are as previously specified.
► damages· In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit.· Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through.
► family· Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour.
► government· Tourism industry leaders have called on the government to compensate them as well as the airlines.· They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.· Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession?
► injury· Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence, but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries.
► investment· Some investment managers may compensate by making a slight switch in emphasis towards capital growth investments and away from high yielding equities.
► lack· Not all such performances are inspiring, however, and a plenitude of decibels does not compensate for lack of quality.· People got snappy, and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave.· Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment.· No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law.· Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity.
► loss· Tire companies therefore compensated for larger losses on tires sold to car makers by raising their margins on retail sales.· The girl compensates for her loss by maintaining connectedness with others.· But here again the gain in freedom from aversive stimulation may compensate for any loss of admiration.· Congress is considering a supplemental appropriation to help compensate for that loss, Moos said.· The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss.· He will get one year with Cleveland to return to elite status and compensate for loss of Ramirez.· After abandoning an appeal against the decision, Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings.· He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
► money· But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain.· But there was enough money to compensate farmers, and claims were being worked on as fast as possible.· No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.· Both are using the power of privilege and big corporate money to compensate for their mediocrity.
► plaintiff· Damages are awarded to compensate the plaintiff for the injury to his reputation and the hurt to his feelings.
► price· The rural poor were not compensated by lower prices or by the greater availability of jobs for wives and children.· The area aid is meant to be compensating for the price cuts.
► risk· The outcome will be influenced by their effort, but they need to be heavily compensated for bearing risks.· Several estimates of the extra wage to compensate for risk cluster around $ 200, 000 per death in 1967 dollars.· Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default.· Sure enough, over time, stocks pay a higher return, to compensate for the higher risk.· The yield on junk bonds did not compensate for their risks, for two related reasons.· Hazardous jobs include the risks of both death and injury, and the extra wages compensate both risks.
► victim· So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.· He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.· This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim.
VERB► attempt· Courts were generally regarded as fair, and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage.
► try· Shorn of Oliver's physical charisma and reserves of sullen, glowing mystery, Branagh tries to compensate with a pugnacious modernism.· When it occurs, the body defences immediately try to compensate.· Inflation will rise if workers try to compensate for the reduction in purchasing power by bargaining for higher pay.· Lacking fresh tomatoes and meat we tried to compensate by piling tomato paste into all our stews and soups and sauces.· Mr Wahid has tried to compensate for his economic shortcomings by surrounding himself with myriad layers of advisers.
WORD FAMILYnouncompensationadjectivecompensatoryverbcompensate
1[intransitive] to replace or balance the effect of something bad: Because my left eye is so weak, my right eye has to work harder to compensate.compensate for Her intelligence more than compensates for her lack of experience.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say make up for something rather than compensate for something:· What she lacks in patience she makes up for in determination.2[transitive] to pay someone money because they have suffered injury, loss, or damage: the government’s promise to compensate victims of the floodcompensate somebody for something The firm will compensate workers for their loss of earnings.GRAMMAR: Patterns with compensate• Something compensates for something: · Nothing can compensate for this loss. ✗Don’t say: Nothing can compensate this loss.• You compensate someone for something: · We will compensate you for your expenses. ✗Don’t say: We will compensate you your expenses.