Compensation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPENSATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of compensating
• something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury
• the action or process of awarding compensation
• something that counterbalances or makes up for an undesirable or unwelcome state of affairs
• the process of concealing or offsetting a psychological difficulty by developing in another direction.
• the money received by an employee from an employer as a salary or wages
• The act or principle of compensating.
• 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 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.
• A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
• 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.
• something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of compensating; the state of being compensated; correction of an organic defect or loss by hypertrophy or by increased functioning of another organ or unimpaired parts of the same organ; a psychological mechanism by which feelings of inferiority, frustration, or failure in one field are counterbalanced by achievement in another

Words related to COMPENSATION

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Words that contain COMPENSATION

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How to use COMPENSATION in a sentence

• The property of the State and of local bodies is likewise surrendered without any compensation whatever.
• And the thesis of the compensation of damages, instead of that for the payment of the cost of the War, prevailed for a very simple reason.
• By way of compensation the great-king received the title of a friend of the Roman commonwealth.
• If she had moreover, like himself, to make sacrifices to their real truth, it was to be granted that her compensation might have affected her as more prompt and more natural.
• I shall charge you a reasonable compensation for the demage to the school by the absence of a teacher.
• Sometimes there is a partial compensation in the sunset picture, but I have never seen that when it really rivalled the picture at the beginning of the day.
• There would be some compensation, some excuse, for going on so.
• The miner takes advantage of our ignorance, and continues to draw his compensation.
• I know her value, and I would not lose her affection for any probable compensation I can imagine.
• But first I will cause thee to have compensation, and then will I have amends made unto myself.
• The fourth resolution, respecting the compensation to planters, was attended with still greater difficulty.
• Were men not to have some compensation for the hardships of the backwoods? And just at that point in the argument Beacon Hill received its name and significance.
• A few political measures were passed, salaries were reduced, and much below a reasonable compensation for those days even.
• In the mean time I have thought proper to apply to your sense of justice for a partial compensation of the trouble you have caused me.
• Receiving no compensation for his services, beyond his necessary support, the negro occasionally sought to compensate himself.
• On the first plantation their condition is not greatly changed from that of slavery, except in the promise of compensation and the absence of compulsory control.
• If the purchaser afterwards finds any defect, he returns it to the agent, who must grant compensation.
• And the compensation for admiring such passages less, for missing the perfect poetic accent in them, will be that we shall admire more the poetry where that accent is found.
• But the chevalier was himself at heart a Frondist and would hear nothing said of compensation.
• While Madge was receiving such rich compensation for having become simply what she was, Miss Wildmere had been gathering the rewards of diplomacy.
• Hallett, has pursued, in laying our claims and oppression before the public, especially as he has done it without asking the least compensation.
• They are engaged in other occupations, and freely give their services as teachers of religion with no thought of compensation or reward.
• All will acknowledge the force of an argument which involves the welfare and liberal compensation of our laboring people.

Similar words containing MPENSA without suffix tion and without prefix co

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