compensate
verb
[ ˈkɒmpɛnseɪt ]
• give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense.
• "payments were made to farmers to compensate them for cuts in subsidies"
Similar:
recompense,
repay,
pay back,
reimburse,
remunerate,
recoup,
requite,
indemnify,
settle up with,
settle accounts with,
• reduce or counteract (something unwelcome or unpleasant) by exerting an opposite force or effect.
• "the manager is hoping for victory to compensate for the team's dismal league campaign"
Similar:
make amends,
make up,
make restitution,
make reparation,
make recompense,
recompense,
atone,
requite,
pay,
expiate,
make good,
put to rights,
rectify,
offset,
square,
balance,
balance out,
counterbalance,
counteract,
counterpoise,
countervail,
make up for,
cancel out,
neutralize,
nullify,
even up,
square up,
equilibrize,
negative,
counterweigh,
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘counterbalance’): from Latin compensat- ‘weighed against’, from the verb compensare, from com- ‘together’ + pensare (frequentative of pendere ‘weigh’).
