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Free sign upThe word "compensate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a verb meaning to make up for, or provide an equivalent for, such as lost or suffered damage, loss, or disadvantage. Example sentence: "The insurance company will compensate the family for the damage caused to their home."
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Compensate
verb
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
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For the teenager's father, nothing can compensate for the death of his son.
BP says it is vigorously defending the case, arguing that it took significant steps to compensate farmers for laying the pipeline on their land and to ensure that no harm was caused.
A more business-friendly regulatory regime and the new security of the City of London from European interference will enhance competitiveness and compensate for the partial loss of access to the European market".
Buoyed by the support of the UN, Gordon Brown last year became the first global leader to publicly call for its introduction as a way for banks to compensate society for causing the global financial crisis.
Palace, who had to compensate for the early loss of Kagisho Dikgacoi to injury, had pinned their opponents back for long spells of the second half.
If it's frustrating for him to see Michael Bradley's Toronto experience consolidating rather than threatening his USA place, or indeed Julio Cesar's position as number one keeper for the presumptive World Cup favorites being equally unaffected by his MLS sojourn, Defoe will have plenty to occupy him in the coming weeks to help his side compensate for the absence of those two.
Furthermore, Younger says if you decide to ditch bottled water, you don't need to compensate by filtering what comes out of the tap.
Recently when drunk he admitted in an answerphone machine that he had been impotent from a very early age, and that he had been trying to find ways to compensate for this heavy and painful secret.
Related: Real Madrid 7-3 Getafe | La Liga match report There are certainly enough options to make a reasonable argument that United's more glaring issue this summer will not theoretically be replacing De Gea but planning for the other end of the pitch and how to compensate for the fact that all three of their main strikers are, to varying degrees, on the wane.
Ukip has won control of its first UK council, in Thanet, a result that will help to compensate for Nigel Farage's failure to win a parliamentary seat in the area in Thursday's general election.
For its first few years, Concorde consistently lost money, and when its owners raised ticket prices to compensate, they were accused of running a service exclusively for the rich.
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