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Compensation   /kˌɑmpənsˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Compensation  n.  
1.
The act or principle of compensating.
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; amends; remuneration; recompense. "The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations... vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners." "No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them."
3.
(Law)
(a)
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.
(b)
A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
(c)
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.
Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
Synonyms: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.





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"Compensation" Quotes from Famous Books



... ten to twenty dollars per month. If, then, the friends of Woman's Rights could set the world an example of paying for female service, not the lowest pittance which stern Necessity may compel the defenceless to accept, but as approximately fair and liberal compensation for the work actually done, as determined by a careful comparison with the recompense of other labor, I believe they would give their cause an impulse which could not be ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
... But there was compensation for it all. For the first time I met the English lower classes face to face, and knew them for what they were. When loungers and workmen, at street corners and in public-houses, talked with me, they ...
— The People of the Abyss • Jack London
... pretendo | prehtehn'doh clerk | oficisto | ofeet-sist'o company | kompanio | kompah-nee'oh —, joint-stock | akcia kompanio | ahk-tsee'ah | | kompah-nee'oh —, limited | limigita kompanio | limighee'tah " compensation | kompenso | kompehn'so complaint | plendo | plehn'doh confiscate, to | konfiski | konfis'kee contract, a | kontrakto | kontrahk'toh cost, insurance | kosto, asekuro kaj | kost'o, ahseh-koor'o and | | freight (c.i.f.) ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann
... shall some day see The Crossways again,' she said, to conceive a compensation in the abandonment of freedom. The night's red vision of martyrdom was reserved to console her secretly, among the unopened lockers in her treasury of thoughts. It helped to sustain her; and she was too conscious ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... contempt; for folly has its martyrs as well as wisdom; and he who has nothing better to show of himself than the scars and bruises which the popular foot has left upon him is not even sure of winning the honors of martyrdom as some compensation for the loss of dignity and self-respect involved in the exhibition of its pains. To the reformer, in an especial manner, comes home the truth that whoso ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city. Patience, hope, charity, watchfulness unto prayer,—how needful are ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier


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