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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 equal something in value or amount.
  • 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 equal something in value or amount.
  2. verb To act against something so as to cancel out its effect.
  3. verb To make up for something, balancing it out.
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