compensation
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
compensation/kɒmpenˈseɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 something awarded to compensate for loss, suffering, or injury.
■ a thing that counteracts an undesirable situation: getting older has some compensations.
■ the action or process of compensating.
- 2 chiefly N. Amer. money received as salary or wages.
– derivatives
compensational adjective.
compensational adjective.
'compensation' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjudge
- angary
- biopiracy
- blood money
- claim
- compensable
- compensate
- compensation pendulum
- confabulate
- damage
- eminent domain
- exemplary
- hope
- indemnity
- insurance
- insure
- loss adjuster
- palimony
- payout
- personal action
- punitive damages
- recompense
- recourse
- redress
- registered post
- reparation
- solatium
