compenseren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- atone verb To make amends for a wrongdoing or mistake.
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
Senses
compenseren is used for these senses in English:
- atone (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]
- compensate (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
compensate — full definition
- verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- verb To make up for a weakness or problem by adjusting something else.