| 单词 | compensation |
| 释义 | compensation (once / 437 pages) 1n 2n Compensation means "making up for a something." When a restaurant offers you a free dessert as compensation for messing up your dinner order, the hope is you will leave happy and come back again. Compensation can also be money, a payment meant to give someone a fair exchange for their effort and output. In fact, the word comes from the Latin word compensat-, meaning "weighed against." If you receive fair compensation for your work, the money is equal to your time and effort. In other words, the scale is balanced. WORD FAMILYcompensation: compensations+/compensate: compensable, compensated, compensates, compensating, compensation, overcompensate/compensated: uncompensated/overcompensate: overcompensated, overcompensates, overcompensating, overcompensation USAGE EXAMPLESThe group was also to receive unspecified compensation for what is described in the accord as previously unfair exclusion from Afghanistan’s government. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) But he noted that Apple’s high compensation, focused product mission and top-down decision-making tended to damp the risk-taking necessary to start a company. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The reason is clear from consultation into a proposed deadline for PPI compensation claims. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n the act of compensating for service or loss or injury Syn|Hypo|Hyper recompense indemnification an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance correction, rectification the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right 2n something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) 2Hypo|Hyper overcompensation excessive compensation workmen's compensationcompensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment reimbursementcompensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc. emolumentcompensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) blood moneycompensation paid to the family of a murdered person amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitutiona sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury counterbalance, offseta compensating equivalent reparation(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors reparationcompensation (given or received) for an insult or injury relief(law) redress awarded by a court actual damages, compensatory damages, general damages(law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated nominal damages(law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) exemplary damages, punitive damages, smart money(law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) atonement, expiation, satisfactioncompensation for a wrong allowancea sum granted as reimbursement for expenses breakagereimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use costspecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation recompense payment or reward (as for service rendered) n (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors Hypo|Hyper overcompensation (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires |
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