compensate
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From Latin compensatus, past participle of compensare (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good, later also shorten, spare”), from com- (“together”) + pensare (“to weight”).
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compensate (third-person singular simple present compensates, present participle compensating, simple past and past participle compensated)
- To pay someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill.
- He tries to use a loud voice to compensate for a lack of personality.
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to pay someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
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to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
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[edit] External links
- compensate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- compensate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Italian
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compensate
- second-person plural present indicative of compensare
- second-person plural imperative of compensare
- Feminine plural of compensato
[edit] Latin
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compensāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of compensō
