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Synonyms for compensation
ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃəncom·pen·sa·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
compensationnoun
An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.
Synonyms:
allowance, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
compensation
Synonyms:
remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damagesAntonyms:
deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage
GCIDE
Compensationnoun
Synonyms:
Recompense, reward, indemnification, consideration, requital, satisfaction, set-off.
Princeton's WordNet
compensationnoun
something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
Synonyms:
recompensecompensationnoun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Synonyms:
recompenserecompense, compensationnoun
the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
Synonyms:
recompense
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
compensationnoun
Synonyms:
recompense, remuneration, rewardcompensationnoun
Synonyms:
requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "compensation":
remuneration, reparation, indemnification, set-off, clearing, compensations, indemnity, redress, pay, compensating, allowance, compensatory, repair, earnings, reparations, offset, offsets, balancer, damages, allowances, compensated, award, compensate, compensable, setoff, offsetting, netting, severance, awards, indemnities, reimbursement, compensator, salary, repairs, payrolls, indemnifications, restitution, recompense, set-offs, payment, wage, compensability, repairing
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #539 | payment | |
| #599 | pay | |
| #1367 | award | |
| #1629 | awards | |
| #1630 | fee | |
| #1666 | repair | |
| #2197 | hire | |
| #3099 | compensation | |
| #3183 | equivalent | |
| #3537 | salary | |
| #3729 | satisfaction | |
| #3776 | earnings | |
| #4950 | damages | |
| #5179 | offset | |
| #5323 | wage | |
| #5345 | restoration | |
| #6079 | repairs | |
| #6846 | wages | |
| #8756 | allowance | |
| #8829 | clearing | |
| #10188 | reimbursement | |
| #14568 | allowances | |
| #15007 | repairing | |
| #15260 | compensate | |
| #15700 | remuneration | |
| #18524 | compensated | |
| #19458 | indemnity | |
| #22740 | restitution | |
| #23043 | severance | |
| #25657 | netting | |
| #25662 | offsets | |
| #26478 | redress | |
| #26773 | compensatory | |
| #29761 | stipend | |
| #29782 | indemnification | |
| #33606 | atonement | |
| #34618 | compensating | |
| #39034 | reparations | |
| #39190 | offsetting | |
| #46605 | balancer | |
| #51050 | reparation | |
| #54032 | payrolls | |
| #60757 | compensable | |
| #61208 | recompense | |
| #75462 | honorarium | |
| #75939 | compensator | |
| #83408 | compensations | |
| #87156 | indemnities | |
| #110913 | setoff | |
| #128352 | expiation | |
| #236800 | compensability | |
| #307426 | requital | |
| #325680 | indemnifications |
How to use compensation in a sentence?
We are tired of the words. We want to see action, we want to see fair compensation for victims of police brutality, we want to see a fair response and an impartial investigation not cops investigating themselves.
We want to talk not just about compensation, but giving more resources to teachers who are asked to do so much more than teach.
There will probably be a solution centred around the idling of brown coal plants against compensation, it may make sense politically, but it is not economic and not the best solution for climate policy.
We're well aware that a victory even of this magnitude will never erase the pain of what people suffered, but we are proud to have helped our clients achieve some measure of justice and compensation.
The filing of this plan marks a crucial step in this tragic saga to provide much needed financial relief to the victims and their families. When NECC entered bankruptcy, many people doubted that the victims would ever receive compensation through the bankruptcy process.
Translations for compensation
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- تعويArabic
- обезщетение, компенсация, уравняванеBulgarian
- compensacióCatalan, Valencian
- Abfindung, Ausgleich, Kompensierung, Ausgleichzahlung, Ersatz, Entlohnung, Wiedergutmachung, KompensationGerman
- αμοιβή, συμψηφισμός, αντιστάθμιση, αποζημίωσηGreek
- compensaciónSpanish
- hüvitisEstonian
- hyvitys, vastike, korvaus, palkkio, palkka, kauppahinta, kuittaus, kompensaatioFinnish
- émolument, compensation, contrepartie, indemnisation, dédommagementFrench
- नुकसान भरपाईHindi
- kárpótlásHungarian
- kompensasiIndonesian
- compensazioneItalian
- פיצויHebrew
- compensatieDutch
- compensaçãoPortuguese
- compensație, compensareRomanian
- возмещение, уравнивание, компенсацияRussian
- obeštećenjeSerbo-Croatian
- ödence, tazminat, telafiTurkish
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