Definition: 1. Adjust or make up for. 2. Make amends for; pay compensation for. 3. Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities. 4. Make reparations or amends for. 5. Do or give something to somebody in return. 6. Make payment to; compensate.
Use 'compensate' in a sentence:
1. The lawyer said she should be compensated for the sufferings.
2. He compensated his homely appearance with great personal charm.
3. It shows how North American exporters quickly increased the exports of certain products to compensate for the restrictions imposed by the Acts.
4. Work by Tina Malti, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto, suggests that guilt may compensate for an emotional deficiency.
5. Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health.
6. I compensated his loss with money.
7. Even if the odds are stacked against you, marriage can more than compensate.
8. Senators say it is crucial that a mechanism is found to compensate for inflation.
9. We all believe that her intelligence can finally compensate for her lack of experience.
10. They strongly demand that you compensate for the loss.
11. How foreign fund-managers will be compensated has yet to be thrashed out.
12. Even if they get online traffic, they struggle to make enough money online to compensate for what they are losing offline.
13. People who sense that they are inferior have to compensate, and often over-compensate by way of outward achievement.
14. Many managers are influenced by dangerous myths about pay that lead to counterproductive decisions about how their companies compensate employees.
15. Her intelligence compensates for her lack of experience.
16. The firm must compensate you for your travelling costs.
17. So how will they compensate me?
18. The government now owns a lot of our land — one possibility would be to compensate us with other property.
19. Elderly people enjoy more time, and this can compensate for lower income.
20. They compensated my loss of time with money.
21. Nothing can compensate for losing my husband.
22. Opportunists must constantly invade new areas to compensate for being displaced by more competitive species.
23. If they were in civvy street they would be compensated anyway.
24. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities.
25. Higher prices, called price premiums, can be justified as a way to compensate farmers for providing ecosystem services and avoiding environmental damage or external costs.
26. You must compensate me for this loss.
27. The idea was that trapped greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth and Mars might have caused temperatures to raise enough to compensate for the low heat the young Sun provided.
28. The government compensated the families of the men who were killed in the accident.
29. For example, tests do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
30. That lack of curiosity produces a relative lack of knowledge, and the lack of knowledge is difficult if not impossible to compensate for later on.
31. The hospital staff were very apologetic but that couldn't really compensate.
32. I can either send it to you by express mail or alternatively compensate you at a reasonable price.
33. He did not have the means to compensate her.
34. She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence.
35. Tests do not compensate for gross social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
36. In other words, they were able to compensate for the Sun's movement.
37. She would then feel guilt for her anger and compensate by doing even more for the children.
38. Survivors were given$ 30,000 each to help compensate for their losses.
39. Their sense of humour and ability to get along with people are two characteristics that compensate for their lack of experience.
40. The official promise to compensate people for the price rise clearly hadn't been worked out properly.
41. No supportive words could ever compensate for the pain of being separated from her children for 10 years.
42. To our satisfaction, the hotel will compensate us for our loss.
43. The company agreed to keep up high levels of output in order to compensate for supplies lost.
44. The pluses more than compensated for the inconveniences involved in making the trip.
45. A surge in domestic sales helped compensate for a fall-off in export sales.
46. To ease financial difficulties, farmers could be compensated for their loss of subsidies.
47. The fund will also be used to compensate landowners who set aside habitat.
48. The damages are designed to compensate victims for their direct losses.
49. Nothing can compensate for the loss of a loved one.
50. Her lawyers say she should be compensated for the suffering she had been caused.
51. When foods from different plant sources are eaten together, deficiency in one is compensated for by sufficiency in another.
52. MPs say it is crucial that a system is found to compensate for inflation.
53. For this scheme to work, the government must provide wage subsidies to compensate for lost pay due to the shorter hours.
54. A baseball player who is not a speedy runner can compensate by powerful hitting.
55. The built-in safety device compensates for a fall in water pressure.
