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compensate

English

🔊 make payment to
“My efforts were not remunerated”
🔊 make amends for
“One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich”
🔊 adjust for
“engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance”
🔊 make reparations or amends for
“right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”
🔊 make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
“he is compensating for being a bad father”
🔊 do or give something to somebody in return
“Does she pay you for the work you are doing?”