verb
- Adjust for.
- usage: "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance"
- synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up
- Make amends for; pay compensation for.
- usage: "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
- synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify
- Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities.
- usage: "he is compensating for being a bad father"
- synonyms: cover, compensate, overcompensate
- Make reparations or amends for.
- usage: "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
- synonyms: right, compensate, redress, correct
- Do or give something to somebody in return.
- usage: "Does she pay you for the work you are doing"
- synonyms: pay, pay off, make up, compensate
- Make payment to; compensate.
- usage: "My efforts were not remunerated"
- synonyms: compensate, recompense, remunerate
adjective
- Receiving or eligible for compensation.
- usage: "salaried workers"; "a stipendiary magistrate"
- synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary
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