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as in to reimburse
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 to offset
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
a mafioso thinking that he can compensate for the evil he's done by giving to charity
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Recent Examples of compensate
Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 June 2025
To achieve these unprecedented views, Cona uses a mirror that reshapes itself 2,200 times per second to compensate for the blur caused by air turbulence.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
But if conditions are somewhere in the middle, say, a drought or a flood, Fulford could lose up to half of his crop and not get compensated despite paying for a policy.
—Rose Schnabel, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
In 2020, a judge ruled that shareholders had been fairly compensated.
—Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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Board members Elissa Roy worked about 15 hours a week and was compensated $22,000 that year and Alex Acuna was paid $18,000 that year for working about 15 hours a week.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 5 June 2025
To achieve these unprecedented views, Cona uses a mirror that reshapes itself 2,200 times per second to compensate for the blur caused by air turbulence.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
But if conditions are somewhere in the middle, say, a drought or a flood, Fulford could lose up to half of his crop and not get compensated despite paying for a policy.
—Rose Schnabel, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
In 2020, a judge ruled that shareholders had been fairly compensated.
—Jemima McEvoy, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
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“Compensate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compensate. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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