1. Payment or reward (as for service rendered) 
2. The act of compensating for service or loss or injury
   - compensation

1. Make amends for; pay compensation for
   - compensate, repair, indemnify 
2. Make payment to; compensate
   - compensate, remunerate

Derived forms: recompensed, recompenses, recompensing

Type of: correction, pay, payment, rectification

• hand mirror
• hand mower
• hand organ
• hand over fist
• hand pump
• hand puppet
• hand shovel
• hand throttle
• hand tool
• hand towel
• hand truck
• hand-crafted
• hand-down
• hand-dye
• hand-held computer
• hand-held microcomputer
• hand-hewn
• hand-loomed
• hand-me-down
• hand-operated
• hand-pick
• Hand-Schuller-Christian disease
• hand-to-hand
• hand-to-hand struggle
• hand-to-mouth