compensation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) compensacion, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Template:term/t, accusative singular of Template:term/t.

Pronunciation

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Noun

compensation (plural compensations)

1. The act or principle of compensating.

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2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; boot; amends; remuneration; recompense.
   • Hallam

     The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.

   • Burke

     No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.

3. The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
4. A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
5. An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
6. The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

Synonyms

• (act of compensating): restitution
• (recompense or reward): restitution

Derived terms

• overcompensation

Translations

act or principle of compensating

• Bulgarian: обезщетение (bg) n (obezštetenie)
• Catalan: compensació f
• Dutch: compensatie (nl) f
• Finnish: kompensaatio (fi), korvaus (fi), hyvitys, palkka (fi), vastike
• French: compensation (fr) f
• German: Abfindung (de) f, Kompensation (de) f
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• Greek: αποζημίωση (el) f (apozimíosi)
• Portuguese: compensação (pt) f
• Romanian: compensare (ro) f
• Russian: компенсация (ru) f (kompensácija), возмещение (ru) n (vozmeščénije)
• Serbian: obeštećenje n
• Turkish: telafi (tr)

that which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent

• Bulgarian: компенсация (bg) f (kompensacija), уравняване n (uravnjavane)
• Catalan: compensació f
• Dutch: compensatie (nl) f
• Finnish: kompensaatio (fi), vastike
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• French: compensation (fr) f
• German: Kompensation (de) f, Ausgleich (de) m, Ersatz (de) m
• Greek: αντιστάθμιση (el) f (antistáthmisi)
• Romanian: compensație (ro) f

extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors

• Bulgarian: уравняване n (uravnjavane)
• Catalan: compensació f
• Dutch: compensatie (nl) f
• Finnish: kuittaus
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• French: dédommagement (fr) m, indemnisation (fr) f
• German: Kompensation (de) f, Ausgleich (de) m, Ausgleichzahlung f
• Greek: συμψηφισμός (el) m (sympsifismós)
• Russian: уравнивание (ru) n (urávnivanije)

recompense or reward for some loss or service

• Bulgarian: обезщетение (bg) n (obezštetenie)
• Dutch: compensatie (nl) f
• Estonian: hüvitis
• Finnish: kompensaatio (fi), korvaus (fi), hyvitys, palkkio (fi)
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• French: dédommagement (fr) m, émolument (fr) m, indemnisation (fr) f
• German: Kompensation (de) f, Entlohnung (de) f, Kompensierung f
• Greek: αποζημίωση (el) f (apozimíosi), αμοιβή (el) f (amoiví) (for service)
• Hungarian: kárpótlás (hu)
• Turkish: tazminat (tr), ödence (tr)

equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate

• Dutch: Compensatie f
• Finnish: kauppahinta
• French: compensation (fr) f, contrepartie (fr) f
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• German: Kompensierung f, Wiedergutmachung (de) f
• Greek: αποζημίωση (el) f (apozimíosi)
• Romanian: compensație (ro) f

relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature

• German: Ausgleich (de) m
• Greek: αντιστάθμιση (el) f (antistáthmisi)
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• Romanian: compensare (ro) f

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: פיצוי (pitzui) m (for loss or lack of something else); תגמול (tagmul) m (for work or service)