compensation
The act or principle of compensating.
Other meanings
Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
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.
Related words
- autocompensation
- compensationary
- malcompensation
- neurocompensation
- noncompensation
- undercompensation
- recompensation
- overcompensation
- decompensation
- compensation culture
- just compensation
- workers' compensation
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "compensātiōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “compensation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.