What are some opposite words for compensation?
Antonyms for compensation
ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃəncom·pen·sa·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
compensationnoun
An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.
Synonyms:
allowance, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
compensation
Antonyms:
deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damageSynonyms:
remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages
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Princeton's WordNet
compensationnoun
something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
Synonyms:
recompensecompensationnoun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Synonyms:
recompenserecompense, compensationnoun
the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
Synonyms:
recompense
How to use compensation in a sentence?
We inaccurately disclosed some of the variable compensation to which we could have been entitled, and should have disclosed it more accurately.
A mistake has been made by us, but the base of the compensation should be decided, we have told our Ukrainian colleagues that international regulations are our basis.
Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska:
Volkswagen should voluntarily pay European car owners compensation that is comparable with that which they will pay U.S. consumers.
My sponsors paid the sponsorship fee related to the 2015 season in its entirety to Sauber in the first half of 2014. This was simply in good faith and to help the team deal with its cash problems at the time, effectively it was my sponsor's advanced payments that helped the team survive in 2014...I am not at liberty to discuss details but Sauber paid significant compensation to avoid honoring the contract they had with me.
If Gregory Abel's that talented, Gregory Abel could have a host of other, extremely lucrative opportunities outside the company, one goal of executive compensation is to retain people who have attractive alternative opportunities.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2266 | damage | |
#2620 | injury | |
#3099 | compensation | |
#5646 | donation | |
#19109 | deprivation | |
#48000 | gratuity | |
#65359 | nonpayment | |
#323539 | fraudulence |
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