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Plural of compensation

regular plural

The plural of compensation is compensations.

Forms of compensation

Singularcompensation /ˌkɒm.pənˈseɪ.ʃən/
Pluralcompensations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Compensations in a sentence

  • These small compensations for how fortunate she’d been.2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 205. From the entry overtip

Meaning of compensation

  1. noun The act or principle of compensating.
  2. noun Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
  3. noun 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.

Full definition of compensation

Questions about the plural of compensation

What is the plural of compensation?
The plural of compensation is compensations.
Is compensation countable?
Compensation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compensation (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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