The phrase "a sort of compensation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that serves as a substitute or makes up for a loss or deficiency.
Example: "The extra vacation days were a sort of compensation for the long hours we had to work during the project."
Alternatives: "a kind of recompense" or "a type of restitution".
It's a sort of compensation race for horses who didn't win the Oaks at Epsom three weeks ago.
Can it be perceived as a crutch, a sort of compensation, for people who may be turned off by the difficult, modernist nature of the score?
Behind the mountains are the best beaches on the island, for years inaccessible until America built a road for us as a sort of compensation for appropriating miles of flat land near the capital for a Naval base.
In fact, perhaps because I'd traveled so much, or perhaps because certain sorts of worries disappear as a sort of compensation for growing older, my fear of flying and of travel had faded almost completely.
He was aware of the horrors that were about to befall the Jews of Europe; he was pessimistic about the coming war with Germany and wondered whether American Jews didn't have dark days awaiting them, too; and he saw the dominion of Hollywood and the sudden wealth and pleasure it afforded as a sort of compensation in advance.
It proves that biofuels are viable and could very well represent not a substitution for oil but a sort of compensation for the oil problems caused by the oil emissions and by the oil civilization.
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Was moving into management – with Newcastle in 1992, then Fulham, England, Manchester City and Newcastle again – any sort of compensation?
Here at The Watch, we've frequently noted how difficult it can be for victims of police brutality and misconduct to recover any sort of compensation.
Taco Bell went on to sell more than $1-billion 1-billionthe tacos, but Mills did not receive any sort of compensation.
