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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compensation \Com'pen*sa"tion\, noun [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.]
1. The act or principle of compensating. --Emerson.
2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. --Hallam.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. --Burke.
3. (Law) (a) 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; a set-off. --Bouvier. --Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) 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.
{Compensation balance}, or {Compensated balance}, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
{Compensation pendulum}. See {Pendulum}.
Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
compensation
noun
1: something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
3: the act of compensating for service or loss or injury [syn: {recompense}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "compensation": alienation, amends, atonement, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, base pay, blame-shifting, blood money, comeuppance, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, damages, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, desert, deserts, dismissal wage, displacement, dissociation, earnings, emotional insulation, escalator clause, escalator plan, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, expiation, expiatory offering, fantasizing, fantasy, financial remuneration, fixing, flight, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, guerdon, hire, honorarium, income, indemnification, indemnity, isolation, just deserts, living wage, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, minimum wage, negativism, net income, overcompensation, overhaul, overhauling, pay, pay and allowances, paying back, payment, payroll, peace offering, penal retribution, penalization, penalty, penance, piaculum, portal-to-portal pay, price, projection, propitiation, psychotaxis, punishment, purchasing power, quittance, rationalization, real wages, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair, repairing, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, requitement, resistance, restitution, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salary, salvage, satisfaction, severance pay, sliding scale, smart money, sociological adjustive reactions, solatium, squaring, sublimation, substitution, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, troubleshooting, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wergild, what is due, what is merited, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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