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recompense1 verbrecompense2 noun recompenserec‧om‧pense1 /ˈrekəmpens/ verb [transitive] recompense1Origin: 1300-1400 French récompenser, from Latin compensare; ➔ COMPENSATE VERB TABLErecompense |
Present | I, you, we, they | recompense | | he, she, it | recompenses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | recompensed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have recompensed | | he, she, it | has recompensed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had recompensed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will recompense | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have recompensed |
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Present | I | am recompensing | | he, she, it | is recompensing | | you, we, they | are recompensing | Past | I, he, she, it | was recompensing | | you, we, they | were recompensing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been recompensing | | he, she, it | has been recompensing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been recompensing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be recompensing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been recompensing |
- Apart from anything else, she wanted to recompense him in some way, although she doubted he would accept a reward.
- Even if the defect was unknown to the seller he had to recompense the buyer.
- Social justice has to recompense genetic injustice.
- The bookseller is recompensed for his trouble with a generous allocation of orders.
- The painting was agreed to by Luce inpart to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend.
formal to give someone a payment for trouble or losses that you have caused them, or a reward for their efforts to help you SYN compensaterecompense somebody for something The charge recompenses the bank for the costs involved. |