'Compensation' definitions:
Definition of 'compensation'
From: WordNet
noun
Something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
noun
The act of compensating for service or loss or injury [syn: recompense, compensation]
Definition of 'Compensation'
From: GCIDE
- Compensation \Com`pen*sa"tion\, n. [L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts.]
- 1. The act or principle of compensating. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. [1913 Webster]
- The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
- No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) (a) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off. --Bouvier. --Wharton. (b) A recompense or reward for some loss or service. (c) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation. [1913 Webster]
- Compensation balance, or Compensated balance, a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different metals having different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
- Compensation pendulum. See Pendulum.
- Syn: Recompense; reward; indemnification; consideration; requital; satisfaction; set-off. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'compensation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alienation,
- amends,
- atonement,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- base pay,
- blame-shifting,
- blood money,
- comeuppance,
- composition,
- compromise,
- consideration,
- correction,
- damages,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- desert,
- deserts,
- dismissal wage,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- earnings,
- emotional insulation,
- escalator clause,
- escalator plan,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- expiation,
- expiatory offering,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- financial remuneration,
- fixing,
- flight,
- gross income,
- guaranteed annual wage,
- guerdon,
- hire,
- honorarium,
- income,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- isolation,
- just deserts,
- living wage,
- making amends,
- making good,
- making right,
- making up,
- meed,
- mending,
- minimum wage,
- negativism,
- net income,
- overcompensation,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- pay,
- pay and allowances,
- paying back,
- payment,
- payroll,
- peace offering,
- penal retribution,
- penalization,
- penalty,
- penance,
- piaculum,
- portal-to-portal pay,
- price,
- projection,
- propitiation,
- psychotaxis,
- punishment,
- purchasing power,
- quittance,
- rationalization,
- real wages,
- reclamation,
- recompense,
- rectification,
- redemption,
- redress,
- refund,
- reimbursement,
- remedy,
- remuneration,
- repair,
- repairing,
- reparation,
- repayment,
- reprisal,
- requital,
- requitement,
- resistance,
- restitution,
- retribution,
- return,
- revenge,
- reward,
- salary,
- salvage,
- satisfaction,
- severance pay,
- sliding scale,
- smart money,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- solatium,
- squaring,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- take-home,
- take-home pay,
- taxable income,
- total compensation,
- troubleshooting,
- wage,
- wage control,
- wage freeze,
- wage reduction,
- wage rollback,
- wage scale,
- wages,
- wages after deductions,
- wages after taxes,
- wergild,
- what is due,
- what is merited,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
Words containing 'Compensation'
- Compensate,
- Compensated,
- Compensating,
- Compensative,
- Compensator,
- Compense,
- compensable,
- Compensated balance,
- Compensation balance,
- Compensation pendulum,
- Magnetic compensator,
- compensating balance,
- compensating gearing,
- unemployment compensation,
- workmen's compensation,
- Workmen's compensation act,
- mercurial compensation pendulum