compensation

compensation
01. He received almost half a million dollars in [compensation] after an accident in which the brakes on his new car failed.
02. No success can [compensate] for failure in the family.
03. Fifty dollars should be adequate [compensation] for the work he did.
04. My friend bought me supper in a restaurant as [compensation] for driving her to school every day.
05. Tobacco farmers are suggesting they should be [compensated] by the government for the cost of switching to other crops.
06. The child tried to [compensate] for hurting her friend's feelings by giving him her favorite toy.
07. He received a year's salary as [compensation] for the loss of his job.
08. Soren Kierkegaard once observed that people demand freedom of speech as a [compensation] for the freedom of thought which they never use.
09. An insurance adjuster is evaluating the reports from the doctor to determine how much [compensation] she should receive as a result of the accident.
10. Gerry's speed in playing squash helps to [compensate] for his lack of skill.
11. Sometimes a less talented athlete can [compensate] for his lack of ability by practising more.
12. The people of Zambia tend to have large families, both as a cause and a [compensation] for high child mortality.
13. The grizzly bear's amazing sense of smell helps [compensate] for its poor eyesight.
14. A dog's keen sense of smell [compensates] for his inability to see colors, and enables him to differentiate between things.
15. In 1997, after O. J. Simpson was cleared of murder charges, a civil trial jury blamed him for the killings of his ex-wife and her friend, and ordered him to pay $8.5 million in [compensatory] damages to the victims' families.
16. An Irish toast tells us that grandchildren are gifts from God. It is God's way of [compensating] us for growing old.
17. It appears that as we get older, the brain may [compensate] for the losses it experiences as a result of the aging process by making better use of the structures that remain intact.
18. [Compensating] the ancestors of former black slaves in the U.S. would cost billions of dollars.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • compensation — [ kɔ̃pɑ̃sasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1290; lat. compensatio, de compensare 1 ♦ Avantage qui compense (un désavantage). Compensation reçue pour des services rendus, des dommages. ⇒ indemnité; dédommagement, réparation, soulte. « Une augmentation de cent… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • compensation — com·pen·sa·tion /ˌkäm pən sā shən/ n 1: the act of compensating 2 in the civil law of Louisiana: the ending of mutual obligations between two people for money or quantities of fungible things usu. by operation of law but sometimes by an agreement …   Law dictionary

  • Compensation — • Denotes the price paid for human exertion or labour Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Compensation     Compensation     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • compensation — COMPENSATION. s. f. Estimation par laquelle on compense une chose avec une autre. Juste compensation. Compensation équitable. Faire compensation. Compensation de dépens. Il eut tant par compensation. C est une maxime de Droit, que compensation n… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • Compensation — can refer to: Financial compensation, various meanings Compensation (chess), various advantages a player has in exchange for a disadvantage Compensation (engineering) Compensation (essay), by Ralph Waldo Emerson Compensation (film), a 2000 film… …   Wikipedia

  • compensation — Compensation. subst. f. v. Estimation par laquelle on compense une chose avec une autre. Juste compensation. compensation équitable. faire compensation. compensation de despens. il eut tant pour la compensation, C est une maxime du Palais, que… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Compensation — Com pen*sa tion, n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.] 1. The act or principle of compensating. Emerson. [1913 Webster] 2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Compensation — (v. lat. Compensatio, Abrechnung), 1) Zahlung einer Schuld durch Abrechnung einer Gegenforderung an den Gläubiger. Sie wird häufig als Einrede gegen die Klage des Gläubigers geltend gemacht, daher Exceptio compensationis. Erfordert wird, daß… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • compensation — compensation. См. компенсация. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • compensation — late 14c., action of compensating, from L. compensationem (nom. compensatio) a weighing one thing against another, a balancing, noun of action from compensare (see COMPENSATE (Cf. compensate)). Meaning what is given in recompense is from c.1600;… …   Etymology dictionary

  • compensation — [n] repayment; rectification advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meet, pay, payment,… …   New thesaurus

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