Dictionary Definition
compensation
Noun
1 something (such as money) given or received as
payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
2 (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals
your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable
behaviors
3 the act of compensating for service or loss or
injury [syn: recompense]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act or principle of compensating.
- 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.
- 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.
- A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
- 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.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
Derived terms
Translations
act or principle of compensating
- Finnish: kompensaatio, korvaus, hyvitys, palkka, vastike
- German: Abfindung, Kompensation
that which constitutes, or is regarded as, an
equivalent
- Finnish: kompensaatio, vastike
- German: Kompensation, Ausgleich, Ersatz
extinction of debts of which two persons are
reciprocally debtors
- Finnish: kuittaus
- German: Kompensation, Ausgleich, Ausgleichzahlung
recompense or reward for some loss or service
- Finnish: kompensaatio, korvaus, hyvitys, palkkio
- German: Kompensation, Entlohnung, Kompensierung
equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the
sale of real estate
- Finnish: kauppahinta
- German: Kompensierung, Wiedergutmachung
relationship between air temperature outside a
building and a calculated target temperature
- German: Ausgleich
- ttbc French: indemnisation
- ttbc Hebrew: פיצוי (pitzui) (for loss or lack of something else); תגמול (tagmul) (for work or service)
Extensive Definition
Compensation can refer to...
- Damages
- legal term referring to the financial compensation recoverable by
reason of another's breach of duty; the money paid or awarded to a
plaintiff
- Workers' compensation, to protect employees who have incurred work-related injuries. Example is the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.
- Remuneration, such as a wage or salary to pay people for their work
- Executive compensation
- Deferred compensation
- Nationalization compensation, compensation paid in the event of nationalization of property
- Defence mechanism, as in psychology
- Compensation (psychology)
- Compensation (engineering)
- Compensation (chess), various advantages a player has in exchange for a disadvantage
- Compensation (essay), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Biological compensation, the characteristic pattern of bending of the plant or mushroom stem after turning from the normal vertical position.
compensation in German: Kompensation
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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