Compensating Synonyms and Antonyms

Do or give something to somebody in return
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. remunerating
  2. recompensing
  3. paying
To act as an equalizing weight or force to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. offsetting
  2. countervailing
  3. counterpoising
  4. counterbalancing
  5. counteracting
  6. balancing
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. refunding
  2. atoning
  3. adjusting
  4. settling
  5. in compensation

Words Related to Compensating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Compensating Sentence Examples

  • In 1865, however, it was suppressed, and one half of the beni ademprivili was assigned to the state, the other half being given to the communes, with the obligation of compensating those who claimed rights over these lands.

  • The issue was finally settled in 1849 when the earl of Elgin was governor and the Canadian legislature, sitting at Montreal, passed by a large majority the Rebellion Losses Bill, compensating citizens, some of them French, in Lower Canada, for losses incurred at the hands of the loyal party during the rebellion a decade earlier.

  • During recent years a considerable quantity of cotton has been exported, but more than a compensating amount of raw cotton, yarns and textiles, is imported.

  • The effective number of turns in the coil surrounding the test rod can be varied by means of three dial switches (for hundreds, tens and units), which also introduce compensating resistances as the number of effective turns in the coil is reduced, thus keeping the total resistance of the circuit constant.

  • Some of the garden varieties of the woodbine are very beautiful, and are held in high esteem for their delicious fragrance, even the wild plant, with its pale flowers, compensating for its sickly looks " with never-cloying odours."

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