uncompensated

adjective

un·com·pen·sat·ed | \ ˌən-ˈkäm-pən-ˌsā-təd

, -ˌpen- \

Definition of uncompensated

1 : not providing or provided with monetary compensation : not paid or compensated uncompensated medical care/costs uncompensated workers … many thousands of our countrymen devote their rosy prime to the harsh and uncompensated work of writing poetry …— Marilynne Robinson

2a : not corrected or affected by physiological compensation — see compensation sense 1b uncompensated congestive heart failure

b : accompanied by a change in the pH of the blood uncompensated acidosis

Examples of uncompensated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web How and to whom the debt should be paid for the uncompensated labor of generations of Black people is a difficult question—but surely more is required than taking down old names and putting up new ones. — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The tax filing lists Cullors as an uncompensated founder and executive director. — Aaron Morrison, ajc, 17 May 2022 Legislators in South Africa, where whites still own the majority of private farmland, had begun debating a constitutional amendment to allow uncompensated land seizures, but no such measure had been passed. — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022 Sicklick noted that the state is already paying for treatment for undocumented children in the form of uncompensated hospital care. — Jenna Carlesso And Katy Golvala, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022 Key to this vision is training and hiring community health workers, a crucial yet largely uncompensated liaison connecting people to health services, especially in underserved neighborhoods. — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022 Without the Sackler contribution, the lawyers said, Purdue would likely be dissolved, leaving plaintiffs who are in sore need of resources largely uncompensated. — Jan Hoffman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021 Eric Adams’s brother Bernard can in fact work for New York City, albeit in a much-diminished and uncompensated role. — New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022 The shame that afflicts millions of American workers is, Press argues, an uncompensated and very real occupational hazard. — Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2021 See More

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