Definition of Compensate

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Compensate

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.

To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

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Compensate Quotations

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Katherine Dunham

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.
Rudolf Arnheim

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Henri Bergson

One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
Charles Sturt

Compensate Translations

compensate in Afrikaans is beloon
compensate in Dutch is vergoeden, compenseren, goedmaken
compensate in French is compensent, compenser, affleurer, compensons
compensate in German is erstatten, kompensieren, kompensieren
compensate in Italian is livellare, indennizzante
compensate in Norwegian is kompensere, erstatte
compensate in Portuguese is compense
compensate in Spanish is abalanzar, indemnizar, compensar

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