компенсировать — meaning in English
kompensirovat
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English meaning
- atone verb To make amends for a wrongdoing or mistake.
- 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.
- recompense noun Payment or reward given in return for something done, lost, or suffered.
- redress verb To correct or make amends for something wrong or unfair.
- refund verb To give back money that someone has paid.
- reimburse verb To pay someone back for money they spent or a loss they suffered.
Senses
компенсировать is used for these senses in English:
- atone (ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]
- 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.
- countervail To compensate for.
- 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.
- recompense To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
- 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.