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ausgleichen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accord noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
  • balance noun A state in which opposing weights, forces, or elements are evenly matched; stability.
  • compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
  • draw verb To create a picture using a pencil, pen, or similar tool.
  • equalize verb To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
  • offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.

Senses

ausgleichen is used for these senses in English:

  • accord (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
  • balance (transitive, figurative) To make (concepts) agree.
  • compensate To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
  • 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 To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
  • draw (cricket, archaic) Of a batter: to hit (a ball) from the off side to the leg side, especially with an inclined bat; also, to hit (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket. [from 19th c.]
  • draw (transitive, cricket) In a match scheduled to last for a certain period of time: to end (a match) with neither side winning because the team batting last has not completed its innings when the playing time concludes.
  • equalize (obsolete, transitive) To be equal to; to equal, to rival. [16th–19th c.]

accord — full definition

  1. noun A formal agreement, especially between countries or groups.
  2. verb To be in agreement or match with something.

balance — full definition

  1. noun A state in which opposing weights, forces, or elements are evenly matched; stability.
  2. noun The amount of money left in an account after deposits and withdrawals, or the difference between credits and debits.
  3. verb To bring something into a state of equilibrium, or to keep it steady without falling.

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