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anticompensation

anticompensation adjective: opposing compensation.

Adjective

anticompensation (comparative more anticompensation, superlative most anticompensation)

  1. Opposing compensation.
    • The air traffic controllers, however, evinced little interest in an anticompensation view. They did not want change; they wanted money.1988, Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy, page 109

Forms of anticompensation

comparativemore anticompensation
superlativemost anticompensation

Origin of anticompensation

From anti- + compensation.

Questions about anticompensation

What does anticompensation mean?
Anticompensation means opposing compensation.
What part of speech is anticompensation?
Anticompensation is an adjective.

Words near anticompensation in the dictionary

  1. anticommutators
  2. anticommute
  3. anticommuted
  4. anticommutes
  5. anticommuting
  6. anticompensation
  7. anticompetition
  8. anticompetitive
  9. anticompetitively
  10. anticompetitiveness
  11. anticompetitor

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