Entry Word: compensate

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury <youʼll have to compensate the neighbors for cutting down their tree>

Synonyms indemnify, recompense, recoup, remunerate, requite

Related Words refund, reimburse, repay; redress, remedy, repair; discharge, pay, quit

2 to give (someone) the sum of money owed for goods or services received <compensate them for their efforts> — see pay 1