compensate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒm.pɛn.seɪt/
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• Atlantic-Canada, General-American: /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/
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• Canada, dialectal: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/ of the US
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• Australian: /ˈkɔm.penˌsæɪt/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈkɔ̟m.penˌsæɪt]
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• rhymes with -æɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M P AH0 N S EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Faroese: bøta aftur — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Faroese: gera gott aftur — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• German: kompensieren — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• German: ausgleichen — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• German: wiedergutmachen — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Hungarian: kompenzál — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Italian: compensare — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Latin: compensō — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: kompensować — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: skompensować — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: równoważyć — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: zrównoważyć — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: wyrównywać — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Polish: wyrównać — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Russian: компенси́ровать (kompensírovatʹ) — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Russian: возмеща́ть (vozmeščátʹ) — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Russian: возмести́ть (vozmestítʹ) — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Spanish: compensar — to do (something good) after (something bad) happens
• Bulgarian: балансирам (balansiram) — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Catalan: compensar — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Faroese: viga upp ímóti — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• German: ausgleichen — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• German: aufwiegen — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Hungarian: kiegyensúlyoz — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Hungarian: kiegyenlít — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Hungarian: kompenzál — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Hungarian: ellensúlyoz — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Hungarian: ellentételez — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Italian: bilanciare — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Latin: compensō — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Russian: скомпенси́ровать (skompensírovatʹ) — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Russian: сбалансировать (sbalansirovatʹ) — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Russian: уравновешивать (uravnovešivatʹ) — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Spanish: compensar — to balance the scales, to equalize, to reach equilibrium
• Azerbaijani: qarşılamaq — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Bulgarian: обезщетявам (obezštetjavam) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Bulgarian: компенсирам (kompensiram) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Catalan: compensar — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Chinese Mandarin: 报酬 (bàochóu) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Finnish: hyvittää — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Finnish: korvata — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• German: eine Kompensation zahlen — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• German: vergüten — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• German: entgelten — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Hebrew: תִּגְמֵל (tigmél) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Hungarian: kárpótol — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Hungarian: kártalanít — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Irish: cúitigh — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Italian: compensare — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Japanese: 補填する (hoten suru) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Latin: tueor — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Norwegian: kompensere — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Polish: rekompensować — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Polish: zrekompensować — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Portuguese: compensar — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Portuguese: recompensar — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Portuguese: pagar — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Romanian: compensa — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Russian: заплатить (zaplatitʹ) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Russian: расплачиваться (rasplačivatʹsja) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Scottish Gaelic: dìol — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Serbo-Croatian: kompenzírati — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Serbo-Croatian: nadòknaditi — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Serbo-Croatian: nadòmjestiti — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Spanish: compensar — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Turkish: zararını karşılamak (indemnify) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Turkish: hakkını vermek — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Ottoman Turkish: تعویض ایتمك (taʼviz etmek) — to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration
• Bulgarian: компенсирам (kompensiram) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Catalan: compensar — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Chinese Mandarin: 弥补 (míbǔ) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Dutch: compenseren — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Dutch: goedmaken — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Esperanto: konservi — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Faroese: viga upp ímóti — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Faroese: útjavna — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Finnish: kompensoida — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• French: compenser — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• German: kompensieren — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• German: ausgleichen — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• German: wettmachen — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• German: ausbügeln — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Hebrew: פִּצָּה (pitsá) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Hungarian: kompenzál — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Hungarian: ellensúlyoz — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Hungarian: pótol — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Irish: cúitigh — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Japanese: 補填する (hoten suru) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Latin: compensō — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Norwegian: kompensere — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Portuguese: compensar — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Portuguese: recompensar — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Russian: компенси́ровать (kompensírovatʹ) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Russian: возмеща́ть (vozmeščátʹ) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Russian: возмести́ть (vozmestítʹ) — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Scottish Gaelic: dìol — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Serbo-Croatian: kompenzírati — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Serbo-Croatian: nadòknaditi — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Serbo-Croatian: nadòmjestiti — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Spanish: compensar — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• Turkish: telafi etmek — to make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct or fill
• German: ausgleichen — to adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation
• German: etwas dagegensetzen — to adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation
• Hungarian: kompenzál — to adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation
• Hungarian: utánaszabályoz — to adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation
• Spanish: compensar — to adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation