compensate
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
Other meanings
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
“It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.”
To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
“His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.”
Related words
- compensatable
- compensator
- decompensate
- malcompensate
- miscompensate
- precompensate
- overcompensate
- recompensate
- undercompensate
Word history
From Latin "compēnsātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “compensate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.