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Synonyms for compensation
ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃəncom·pen·sa·tion

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. 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 Antonyms4.0 / 1 vote

  1. compensation

    Synonyms:
    remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages

    Antonyms:
    deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage

Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 1 vote

  1. compensationnoun

    something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

    Synonyms:
    recompense

  2. compensationnoun

    (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

    Synonyms:
    recompense

  3. recompense, compensationnoun

    the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

    Synonyms:
    recompense

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. compensationnoun

    Synonyms:
    recompense, remuneration, reward

  2. compensationnoun

    Synonyms:
    requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends

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How to use compensation in a sentence?

  1. Jasoon Chelat from Cividep India:

    I just thought the company was being nice and it was compensation for my low salary. This film was an eye opener.

  2. Matthias Mueller:

    You don't have to be a mathematician to realize that compensation at arbitrarily high levels would overwhelm Volkswagen.

  3. Hendrik Olivier:

    It's a huge step forward, lets acknowledge that. In the past the government has said that it won't pay compensation, but if you are talking about new farmers paying a levy, that's not gonna work, that's not gonna pay our compensation.

  4. James Krellenstein:

    The James Krellenstein government always has the power to -- to put The US government colloquially -- break patents when those patents stand in the way of competition, and Gilead Sciences is guaranteed fair compensation under the same law, so Gilead Sciences would still make a lot of money.

  5. Arturo Forner-Cordero:

    Compensating for sleep could be an important strategy, for instance, for those who are chronically sleep-deprived, like shift workers, clinicians, and some military personnel, if they build in regular sleep compensation, they might have better control over their gait.


Translations for compensation

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  • تعويArabic
  • обезщетение, компенсация, уравняванеBulgarian
  • compensacióCatalan, Valencian
  • Abfindung, Ausgleich, Kompensierung, Ausgleichzahlung, Ersatz, Entlohnung, Wiedergutmachung, KompensationGerman
  • αμοιβή, συμψηφισμός, αντιστάθμιση, αποζημίωσηGreek
  • compensaciónSpanish
  • hüvitisEstonian
  • hyvitys, vastike, korvaus, palkkio, palkka, kauppahinta, kuittaus, kompensaatioFinnish
  • émolument, compensation, contrepartie, indemnisation, dédommagementFrench
  • नुकसान भरपाईHindi
  • kárpótlásHungarian
  • kompensasiIndonesian
  • compensazioneItalian
  • פיצויHebrew
  • compensatieDutch
  • compensaçãoPortuguese
  • compensație, compensareRomanian
  • возмещение, уравнивание, компенсацияRussian
  • obeštećenjeSerbo-Croatian
  • ödence, tazminat, telafiTurkish

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