compensation | | |
n. (possession) | 1. compensation | something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury). |
| ~ recompense | payment or reward (as for service rendered). |
| ~ overcompensation | excessive compensation. |
| ~ workmen's compensation | compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment. |
| ~ reimbursement | compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc..; "he received reimbursement for his travel expenses" |
| ~ emolument | compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees).; "a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes" |
| ~ blood money | compensation paid to the family of a murdered person. |
| ~ amends, damages, indemnification, redress, restitution, indemnity | a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury. |
| ~ offset, counterbalance | a compensating equivalent. |
| ~ reparation | (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors.; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I" |
| ~ reparation | compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury.; "an act for which there is no reparation" |
n. (process) | 2. compensation | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors. |
| ~ psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology | the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. |
| ~ defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defense | (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires. |
| ~ overcompensation | (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite. |
n. (act) | 3. compensation, recompense | the act of compensating for service or loss or injury. |
| ~ correction, rectification | the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right. |
| ~ indemnification | an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance. |
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