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kompensoida — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
  • countervail verb To have the same value or number as.
  • offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.

Senses

kompensoida is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • countervail To compensate for.
  • offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.

compensate — full definition

  1. verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
  2. verb To make up for a weakness or problem by adjusting something else.

countervail — full definition

  1. verb To have the same value or number as.
  2. verb To counter, counteract, counterbalance, neutralize, or negate.
  3. verb To compensate for.

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