compensated

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Adjective

compensated

1. That received compensation (payment)
   • 1998, Service Contract Act: Prevailing Wage Resource Book 1998, page 5:

     Some commenters foresaw the possibility that "a handful of very compensated employees could tilt the average high enough to meet the minimum average benefit with little or no contributions to the 'average' employee .

2. That has been adjusted to compensate for some circumstances.
   • 1934, Irving Fisher, Hans R. L. Cohrssen, Stable Money: A History of the Movement, page 380:

     But, if my view is correct, the only gold standard which could have survived during the last few years would have been the very compensated gold dollar against which the bankers' report was written.

   • 1948, Gifford Bull ·, Stability of an Airplane with a Compensated Autopilot, page 26:

     The equations of motion can be set up for an airplane equipped with a "compensated" autopilot ( one in which the autopilot constants are varied as the airplane parameters vary ) , including the effects of lag in both the autopilot and the commuter .

Derived terms

• compensated dating
• compensated summation
• noncompensated
• time-compensated gain
• uncompensated

 

Verb

compensated

1. simple past and past participle of compensate