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Definitions
make payment to; compensate
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
Used in a sentence
“It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.”
“His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.”
“To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Make up for loss”10 letters
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