Meaning of "compensate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMPENSATE

From Latin compēnsāre, from pensāre, from pendere to weigh.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF COMPENSATE

ˈkɒmpɛnˌseɪt

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPENSATE

Compensate is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb compensate in English.

WHAT DOES COMPENSATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of compensate in the English dictionary

The first definition of compensate in the dictionary is to make amends to, esp for loss or injury. Other definition of compensate is to serve as compensation or damages for. Compensate is also to offset or counterbalance the effects of so as to nullify the effects of an undesirable influence and produce equilibrium.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COMPENSATE

PRESENT

Present

I compensate

you compensate

he/she/it compensates

we compensate

you compensate

they compensate

Present continuous

I am compensating

you are compensating

he/she/it is compensating

we are compensating

you are compensating

they are compensating

Present perfect

I have compensated

you have compensated

he/she/it has compensated

we have compensated

you have compensated

they have compensated

Present perfect continuous

I have been compensating

you have been compensating

he/she/it has been compensating

we have been compensating

you have been compensating

they have been compensating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I compensated

you compensated

he/she/it compensated

we compensated

you compensated

they compensated

Past continuous

I was compensating

you were compensating

he/she/it was compensating

we were compensating

you were compensating

they were compensating

Past perfect

I had compensated

you had compensated

he/she/it had compensated

we had compensated

you had compensated

they had compensated

Past perfect continuous

I had been compensating

you had been compensating

he/she/it had been compensating

we had been compensating

you had been compensating

they had been compensating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will compensate

you will compensate

he/she/it will compensate

we will compensate

you will compensate

they will compensate

Future continuous

I will be compensating

you will be compensating

he/she/it will be compensating

we will be compensating

you will be compensating

they will be compensating

Future perfect

I will have compensated

you will have compensated

he/she/it will have compensated

we will have compensated

you will have compensated

they will have compensated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been compensating

you will have been compensating

he/she/it will have been compensating

we will have been compensating

you will have been compensating

they will have been compensating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would compensate

you would compensate

he/she/it would compensate

we would compensate

you would compensate

they would compensate

Conditional continuous

I would be compensating

you would be compensating

he/she/it would be compensating

we would be compensating

you would be compensating

they would be compensating

Conditional perfect

I would have compensate

you would have compensate

he/she/it would have compensate

we would have compensate

you would have compensate

they would have compensate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been compensating

you would have been compensating

he/she/it would have been compensating

we would have been compensating

you would have been compensating

they would have been compensating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you compensate
we let´s compensate
you compensate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to compensate

Past participle

compensated

Present Participle

compensating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «COMPENSATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «compensate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

balance · counteract · counterbalance · countervail · indemnify · make good · neutralize · offset · pay for · recompense · redress · refund · reimburse · remunerate · repay · requite · satisfy

TRANSLATION OF COMPENSATE

Find out the translation of compensate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of compensate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compensate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 赔偿
• Translator English - Spanish: compensar
• English: compensate
• Translator English - Hindi: क्षतिपूर्ति
• Translator English - Arabic: يُعَوِّضُ
• Translator English - Russian: компенсировать
• Translator English - Portuguese: compensar
• Translator English - Bengali: ক্ষতিপূরণ করা
• Translator English - French: compenser
• Translator English - Malay: Mengimbangi
• Translator English - German: entschädigen
• Translator English - Japanese: 補償する
• Translator English - Korean: 보상하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Ngganti
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đền bù
• Translator English - Tamil: ஈடு
• Translator English - Marathi: भरपाई
• Translator English - Turkish: karşılamak
• Translator English - Italian: compensare
• Translator English - Polish: wynagrodzić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: компенсувати
• Translator English - Romanian: a compensa
• Translator English - Greek: αποζημιώνω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vergoed
• Translator English - Swedish: kompensera
• Translator English - Norwegian: kompansere

10 QUOTES WITH «COMPENSATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word compensate.

1

Tony Abbott

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

2

Rudolf Arnheim

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

3

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

4

Marion Bartoli

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

5

Erskine Bowles

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.

6

Claude Chabrol

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

7

Guy Debord

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

8

Katherine Dunham

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

9

David Duval

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

10

Renee Ellmers

If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPENSATE»

Discover the use of compensate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compensate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

What Is Life Worth?: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and ...

The Inside Story of the 9/11 Fund and Its Effort to Compensate the Victims of September 11th Kenneth Feinberg. The keys to forging a settlement were empathy (let them vent), doggedness, preparation, creativity, and flexibility. For example ...

Kenneth Feinberg, 2006

Voting for Policy, Not Parties: How Voters Compensate for ...

This book develops an institutionally embedded framework for analyzing voter choice, examining three electoral arenas: parliamentary, presidential, and federal.

Orit Kedar, 2009

United States Congressional serial set

To compensate Owen A. Galvin, United States attorney for Massachusetts, for services in habeas corpus case of military prisoner at Fort Warren, 1889 (Exhibit ! )) $150.00 To compensate Rudolph Kleberg, United States attorney, western ...

David Ball on Damages: The Essential Update : a Plaintiff's ...

Rarely will anything the judge say clarify it. As with most misunderstandings of the law, this one will hurt you, not the defense. Start by explaining that — as my JuryWatch partner Debra Miller puts it — the instruction to compensate is the jurors' ...

David A. Ball, 2005

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Unleashed

If the custom compensate block could be called from within the same custom compensate block, that would lead to endless loops. When executed from an exception handler, it makes sense because the transaction has not committed, and ...

Brian Loesgen, Charles Young, Jan Eliasen, 2011

Adopting Full Dollarization in Postconflict Economies: Would ...

Miss Liliana Schumacher, Jiro Honda. As highlighted above, in a dollarized economy, output fluctuations would tend to be larger because adjustments to extemal and domestic shocks require nominal price and wage flexibility. A current ...

Miss Liliana Schumacher, Jiro Honda, 2006

The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: ...

Because the meaning Is— this enterprise. Enterprise is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case: and is the subject of will compensate; according to Rule II, *vhich says, "A noun or a pronoun ...

Goold Brown, 1861

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...

F. compenxatif = Pg. compensative, < LL. com- pensativus, < L. compensatus, pp. of compen- sare, compensate: see compensate] I. a. Making amends or compensation. The compensative Justice of the old drama. Hazlitt, Lit. of Reign of  ...

Can Immigration Compensate for Below-replacement Fertility? ...

Keywords. immigration, spatial distribution, below-replacement fertility, demographic transition theory, replacement immigration, natural decrease, Canada, aging.

Deborah Matthews, 2006

Flip Dictionary

... restore, reward, satisfy, square, tally compensate and pay back: reimburse, requite compensate and pay for: remunerate compensate and right a wrong: redress compensate for: countervail, offset compensate for damage or loss: indemnify, ...

Barbara Kipfer, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPENSATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compensate is used in the context of the following news items.

Compensate app is a new way to hire an expert for minutes or days

That's the idea behind the beta tool, Compensate – a unique payment clock that requires both parties to check in before billing begins. «AGBeat, Jul 15»

City to compensate police officers for lack of take-home patrol cars

Brentwood police officers have been given a monthly stipend to compensate for not being provided with a patrol car they can take home. «Brentwood Home Page, Jul 15»

The damage for which Chevron has failed to compensate its victims …

For 20 years, farmers and indigenous people have been fighting the Chevron-Texaco corporation for recognition of the damage it has caused ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»

NTT East, West to partially compensate IP fraud victims

In other words, NTT East and West have effectively decided to compensate IP phone users for the charges that were incurred through the ... «The Japan News, Jul 15»

Government to Compensate LRA Victims

Kampala — President Museveni has assured local leaders from Lango and Acholi sub-regions that the government will compensate victims of ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»

Korea ordered to compensate cyclist hit by U.S. Army truck

A court ruled Tuesday that the South Korean government should compensate a Korean citizen injured in a traffic accident caused by a U.S. ... «The Korea Herald, Jul 15»

Aggreko to compensate 26 farmers whose land it acquired

Aggreko Plc, a Scottish power firm, has prepared a compensation package for 26 farmers whose crops were affected when the company ... «Ghana Business News, Jul 15»

Compensate genuine alcohol traders, ODM tells State

NAIROBI: Some Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leaders have kept up the momentum on the government to compensate genuine ... «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»

Comptroller asks Court for order to compensate state employees

Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger says that her office will be in court to request orders allowing the office to pay all state employees on their ... «WREX-TV, Jul 15»

Kagame to Compensate Ugandans Over War

Gichumbi — Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said Kigali is ready to compensate Ugandans who lost lives and property during the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»