COMPENSATING Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

compensating

verb

present participle of compensate

as in reimbursing

to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury you'll have to compensate the neighbors for cutting down their tree

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as in paying

to give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received compensate them well for their efforts

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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

stiffing

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of compensating Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the electronics company of using her likeness to sell TVs without her permission or compensating her. —

Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 10 May 2026 Annabelle Gordon | Reuters Lower-income consumers are compensating for higher gas prices by buying less while those in higher-income brackets haven't changed their behavior much at all despite soaring costs, according to research released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve of New York. —

Jeff Cox, CNBC, 6 May 2026 And the body that sold stories like Chambliss’s for years, who swore compensating players would cheapen the game, is the only entity who wants his story to end. —

Bomani Jones, Vanity Fair, 29 Apr. 2026 Stephens might struggle compensating for his lack of ideal length and athleticism, but blocking awareness and the power in his hands give him a fighting chance. —

Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026 After the project stalled in 2014, Epstein heightened his communication with Gates and his deputies, seemingly trying to pressure the billionaire into supporting the fund and compensating him for funding Antonova’s schooling and housing. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026 Insurance agencies often provide low initial offers when compensating victims because they’re incentivized to do so, and this understandably leaves said victims in a difficult situation. —

Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 The calls were loudest for burying power lines, improving utility equipment to withstand storms and compensating businesses and individuals for losses due to outages. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026 To hear health systems tell the story, artificial intelligence tools like ambient scribes are helping not only reduce doctor burnout, but also increasing payments from insurers that haven’t been compensating them properly. —

Brittany Trang, STAT, 8 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for compensating

Verb

Insurance companies can invest the float, sometimes for years, before reimbursing insurance losses.

— Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
To fix this, the new recommendations include paying states a lump-sum immediately after a disaster strikes, instead of reimbursing them later for disaster costs.

— Lauren Sommer, NPR, 7 May 2026