compensation
//ˌkɒm.pənˈseɪ.ʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- compensations
Definitions
1.The act or principle of compensating.
- 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.
2.Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- 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.
3.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.A recompense or reward for service.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4124
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English compensacioun, from Old French compensacion, from Latin compensātiōnem, accusative singular of compensātiō.
Equivalent to compensate + -ion.