Compensation Definition

kŏmpən-sāshən
noun
A compensating or being compensated.
Webster's New World
Anything given as an equivalent, or to make amends for a loss, damage, unemployment, etc.; recompense.
Webster's New World
Payment for services; esp., wages or remuneration.
Webster's New World
The counterbalancing of a defect in the structure or function of a part by greater activity in or development of one or more other parts.
Webster's New World
A mechanism by which an individual seeks to make up for a real or imagined psychological defect by developing or exaggerating a psychological strength.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Compensation

Noun

Singular:
compensation
Plural:
compensations

Origin of Compensation

  • From Old French compensacion, from Latin compensātiōnem, accusative singular of compensātiō.

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