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Compensate Compensate Com"pen*sate, v. i.
To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for;
as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Compensate Compensate Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [L.
compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several
things with one another, to balance with one another, verb
intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium.]
1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to
give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to
compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his
losses.
2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance;
to make up for; to make amends for.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do
compensate the heat of the day. --Bacon.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the
miseries. --Prior.
Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite;
counterbalance.
Compensated Compensate Com"pen*sate (? or ?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Compensated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compensating.] [L.
compensatus, p. p. of compensare, prop., to weigh several
things with one another, to balance with one another, verb
intens. fr. compendere. See Compendium.]
1. To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to
give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to
compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his
losses.
2. To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance;
to make up for; to make amends for.
The length of the night and the dews thereof do
compensate the heat of the day. --Bacon.
The pleasures of life do not compensate the
miseries. --Prior.
Syn: To recompense; remunerate; indemnify; reward; requite;
counterbalance.
Compensated balance Compensation Com`pen*sa"tion, n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a
balancing of accounts.]
1. The act or principle of compensating. --Emerson.
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. --Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
--Burke.
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. --Bouvier.
--Wharton.
(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.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration;
requital; satisfaction; set-off.
Equipensate Equipensate E`qui*pen"sate, v. t. [Equi- + pensatus, p. p. of
pensare to weigh. Cf. Equipoise.]
To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [Obs.]
