Word of the Day:
compensate
What It Means
To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
I hate that old car because it steers a little to the left and I'm always compensating for that when I drive it.
Did You Know?
Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.
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