Usually means: Making up for a deficiency.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word Compensative:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensative: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compensative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compensative: Wordnik
  5. compensative: Wiktionary
  6. Compensative, compensative: Dictionary.com
  7. Compensative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. compensative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. compensative: Rhymezone
  10. Compensative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. compensative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. compensative: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Compensative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensative: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compensative)

▸ adjective:  that compensates for something; compensatory
▸ noun:  (obsolete) compensation

Similar:
countervailing, counteractive, offsetting, anticompensation, complemental, complimental, counterpositional, collateral, commutive, complementary, more...

Opposite:
non-compensatory, uncompensated, uncompensable, unrecompensed

Types:
direct, indirect, positive, negative, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, counteracting, more...

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Similar:
countervailing, counteractive, offsetting, anticompensation, complemental, complimental, counterpositional, collateral, commutive, complementary, more...

Opposite:
non-compensatory, uncompensated, uncompensable, unrecompensed

Types:
direct, indirect, positive, negative, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, counteracting, more...



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