kompensieren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
Senses
kompensieren is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
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.