Compensation for actual losses incurred.

Compensatory education offers supplementary programs or services designed to help children at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement succeed.

Increased size in response, adaptation.

(phonology, uncountable) The lengthening of a vowel sound which occurs when a following consonant is lost, regarded as an extreme form of fusion; (countable) an instance of this.

Pause following a missed heartbeat.

Financial support to offset imbalances.

Spending to offset economic downturns.