Usually means: Payment for services or damages.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensation: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compensation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compensation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compensation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compensation, compensation: Wordnik
  7. compensation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compensation: Wiktionary
  9. compensation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compensation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compensation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. compensation: Dictionary.com
  13. compensation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Compensation (chess), Compensation (cytometry), Compensation (engineering), Compensation (essay), Compensation (film), Compensation (nationalization), Compensation (psychology), Compensation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Compensation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. compensation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. compensation: Rhymezone
  18. Compensation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. compensation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. compensation: FreeDictionary.org
  21. compensation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. compensation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. compensation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensation: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. compensation: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. compensation: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Compensation: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  12. compensation: Legal dictionary
  13. compensation: Financial dictionary
  14. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  15. Compensation: Radio Programming and Production
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  6. compensation: Medical dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Compensation: Chess Dictionary
  2. Compensation: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See compensational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or principle of compensating.
noun:  Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
noun:  (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
noun:  A recompense or reward for service.
noun:  (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
noun:  The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
noun:  (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).

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