# compensate
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/, /ˈkɒm.pɛn.seɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑm.pənˌseɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkɔm.penˌsæɪt/
* Rhymes: -eɪt, -æɪt

### Verb

compensate (third-person singular simple present compensates, present participle compensating, simple past and past participle compensated)
* To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
* To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
    It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
* (transitive, intransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
    Synonym: make up
    His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
    To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
** 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):, Preface
    The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
* To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
    I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
    To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Synonyms

* (to do something good): See Thesaurus:compensate
* (to pay): guerdon, reimburse; see also Thesaurus:reimburse
* (to make up for): See Thesaurus:atone or Thesaurus:offset
* (to adjust to a change): acclimatize, acclimate, accommodate, accustom, adapt; see also Thesaurus:accustom
* accord
* amend
* appease
* atone
* equate
* expiate
* harmonize
* indemnify
* level
* offset
* reconcile
* rectify
* redeem
* redress
* remedy
* remunerate
* requite
* resolve
* restitute and restitution
* square

#### Derived terms

* compensatable
* compensator
* decompensate
* malcompensate
* miscompensate
* overcompensate
* precompensate
* recompensate
* undercompensate

#### Related terms

* compensation
* compensatory
* compensable
* compensably
* recompense

#### Further reading

* “compensate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “compensate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

compensate
* inflection of compensare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

compensate f pl
* feminine plural of compensato

## Latin
### Verb

compēnsāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of compēnsō

## Spanish
### Verb

compensate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of compensar combined with te