compensar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- compensate verb To pay someone money to make up for a loss, injury, or inconvenience.
- offset noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
- pay verb To give money in exchange for goods, services, or work.
- recompense noun Payment or reward given in return for something done, lost, or suffered.
Senses
compensar is used for these senses in English:
- compensate To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
- 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 amends (idiomatic) To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
- make up To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.
- offset (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- pay (transitive) To be profitable for.
- pay off (intransitive) To become worthwhile; to produce a net benefit.
- recompense (transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
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.
offset — full definition
- noun Something that balances out or compensates for something else.
- verb To counterbalance or compensate for something, typically by an opposite effect.