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Compensate
Mattias Eek
Mälardalen University
Date 1
Formal Definition(s)
Oxford Learner's Dictionary
What are Transitive / Intransitive verbs?
"The car accelerates."
First Definition
"[intransitive] compensate (for something) to provide something good to balance or reduce the bad effects of damage, loss, etc.
- "Nothing can compensate for the loss of a loved one."
First Definition
Second Definition
[intransitive] compensate (for something) to act in order to balance or correct something wrong or not normal
- "In the second experiment, the temperature was raised to compensate for this bias."
Second Definition
Last Definition
[transitive] compensate somebody (for something) to pay somebody money because they have suffered some damage, loss, injury, etc.
- "Her lawyers say she should be compensated for the suffering she had been caused."
Last Definition
Collocations
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Collocations
Noun Clause
Noun
Verb Clause
Verb
Adjective
Adverbial
Grammatical Patterns
Verb Forms
Compensatory [adj]
Compensator [noun]