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Word entry · 12 letters

compensation

Best crossword clue

"Payment for loss"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ˌkɒm.pənˈseɪ.ʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aceimnnoopstStarts with CEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

Word origin

From Middle English compensacioun, from Old French compensacion, from Latin compensātiōnem, accusative singular of compensātiō. Equivalent to compensate + -ion.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
  • No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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