: a complimentary ticket
broadly
: something provided free of charge
comped; comping; comps
: to provide (someone) with something free
a hotel comping celebrities for their rooms
Tim had turned to greet a fellow in a tweedy sport coat, and I saw him signal the bartender to comp the guy to a drink.—
Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton
also
: to provide (something) free of charge
Opening night, there was enough of an overflow, and enough angry people left in the hallways, that management started to comp hotel rooms to soothe the frazzled. —Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres
comped; comping; comps
: to punctuate and support a jazz solo with irregularly spaced chords
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Examples of comp in a Sentence
Noun
this hotel offers its guests more comps, including a free bottle of champagne, than most in its class
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Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 July 2025
The closest comp may come from Detroit, where Tigers outfielder Parker Meadows missed more than two months this season due to a musculocutaneous nerve issue.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Yet, in the first quarter 2026, ended May 3, overall revenues were up 2% to $1.5 billion and same-store sales rose 2.5%, which Jefferies reports is the first time in 12 successive quarters that comp sales in North America inflected positive.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
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Noun
The second batch of players then play a comp to find the missing relic amid a sea of phonies.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 10 July 2025
The closest comp may come from Detroit, where Tigers outfielder Parker Meadows missed more than two months this season due to a musculocutaneous nerve issue.
—Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025
Verb
After years of protesting player comps or begrudgingly including them in my final column before the draft, the pressure to do them reached a critical mass.
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Yet, in the first quarter 2026, ended May 3, overall revenues were up 2% to $1.5 billion and same-store sales rose 2.5%, which Jefferies reports is the first time in 12 successive quarters that comp sales in North America inflected positive.
—Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
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“Comp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comp. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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