Compensate
compensate (verb)
a. Pay money for something given to you or done for you
b. Pay money for a loss or injury
c. Reduce the bad effect of something
compensate for
compensation (noun)
compensatory (adjective)
Examples sentences:
* The Philippines and Indonesia will likely import up to two million tonnes of rice to compensate for local shortfalls following severe drought.
* The company will compensate you for the losses you have suffered.
* The benefits of the project for villagers will more than compensate for the risks associated with it.
* People whose livelihood has suffered from the oil spill will be compensated in full.
* She got some compensation from the drunk driver who hit her car.
* He received 100,000 baht compensation for his injuries.
* The company will have to pay several months salary to compensate the employees they have laid off.
* Health insurance and other benefits are a substantial part of the compensation package being offered new employees.
* The government was called on to provide financial assistance and to compensate for the loss of employee benefits.
* While he is working in another country, he will want to maintain a strong, close relationship with her and compensate for the time when they cannot be together by making outings and long vacations.
* If men choose to divorce their wife they will, from now on, have to compensate her for the domestic services rendered during their marriage.
* Stockbrokers have made large secret payments to compensate favoured clients for losses.
* He said he might not be willing to come back, unless Nicole was prepared to compensate him for the remainder of his contract.
* "Sartre once said that he became a writer to compensate for his ugliness and to seduce pretty girls."
* "The government offering income- and capital-gains-tax incentives to compensate for the extra risk taken by investors."
* Perhaps the kitchen is understaffed to compensate for the excess of waiters who gather out back to giggle and gossip and drink wine.
* The TV channel is looking for a new audience to compensate for ratings falls of nearly two million in three years.
* The companies found guilty will relinquish profits to a state fund which, in turn, will compensate victims and their families, this week's Supreme Court ruling said.
