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as in to reimburse
to provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury
you'll have to compensate the neighbors for cutting down their tree
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as in to offset
to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective
a mafioso thinking that he can compensate for the evil he's done by giving to charity
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Recent Examples of compensate
Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Switching to the optical finder gives you a clear, perfectly focused view of the world, complete with a frame line that adjusts based on the attached lens, and automatically moves based on the set focus distance, compensating for parallax.
—PC Magazine, 23 July 2025
In the past, Google has offered programs such as Google News Showcase to compensate publishers without undermining its core argument that the copyright doctrine of fair use permits use of their material.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
The mesmerizing and visually appealing frames in the film are unable to compensate.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
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But for many foreign companies, the slide in the U.S. dollar has incentivized them to raise their invoice prices to compensate, according to Wells Fargo.
—Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Switching to the optical finder gives you a clear, perfectly focused view of the world, complete with a frame line that adjusts based on the attached lens, and automatically moves based on the set focus distance, compensating for parallax.
—PC Magazine, 23 July 2025
In the past, Google has offered programs such as Google News Showcase to compensate publishers without undermining its core argument that the copyright doctrine of fair use permits use of their material.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 July 2025
The mesmerizing and visually appealing frames in the film are unable to compensate.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for compensate
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“Compensate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compensate. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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