Compensation

Quick meaning: Compensation is a noun meaning The act or principle of compensating.

Meaning

The act or principle of compensating.

More Meanings

1. Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
2. A recompense or reward for service.
3. (finance) 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.
4. (real estate) 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.
5. (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
6. The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

Example Sentences

No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.

The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.

Human labor, through all its forms, from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.

Word Forms

• compensations

Synonyms for compensation

Depending on context, synonyms include amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, indemnification, indemnity.

Antonyms for compensation

Common opposites include noncompensation, penalty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include recompense, compensator, compensate, compensability, repayment, compensatory.

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