Used with why or when

• when: First, the liver is an amazing organ, and will compensate when there are problems.

Object

• victim: He also accused today's insurance industry of a cynical attempt to avoid compensating asbestos victims.

• claimant: The Defendant: The defendant's task is to compensate the claimant for his losses.

• fisherman: This economic potential could be realized in several ways and used to compensate fishermen for changing fishing techniques, targets and fishing areas.

• farmer: However, to compensate farmers for the loss of subsidy, produce prices have been raised.

Preposition: for

• loss: The allowance is designed to compensate for loss of earning capacity.

• shortfall: Simultaneously universities must attempt to increase class sizes to compensate for the general shortfall in income.

• deficiency: Training alone is unlikely to compensate for other deficiencies.

• lack: The Lucia effectively compensates for the lack of natural daylight.

• shortcoming: At the informal level it may just be a coping strategy to compensate for the shortcomings of the system.

Modifying Another Word

• partly: To partly compensate we seconded a Japanese research fellow from Kawasaki within our research team meetings.

• automatically: Thus the machine compensates automatically for the variation in board loading position.