compense

See also: compensé

English

Etymology

From French compenser. See compensate.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To compensate.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “compense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pɑ̃s/

Verb

compense

1. inflection of compenser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

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Portuguese

Verb

compense

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈpense/ [kõmˈpẽn.se]

Verb

compense

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of compensar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of compensar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of compensar.