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compensatory
[ kuhm-pen-suh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]
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Other Words From
- non·compen·sative adjective
- noncom·pensa·tory adjective
- recom·pensa·tory adjective
- sub·compen·sative adjective
- subcom·pensa·tory adjective
- un·compen·sative adjective
- uncom·pensa·tory adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of compensatory1
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Example Sentences
But there is a compensatory antidote: trade in the caffeine for cannabis.
Behind the impersonality of money lies an intensely personal, often compensatory compulsion.
Nor do I care for those compensatory honors that my position and family influence might have secured for me.
Since confederation it comes from compensatory subsidies, and the two last named sources.
Hence the agitation for compensatory clauses, enabling the tenant to safely invest all the capital he can procure in the soil.
One moral we have already deduced, in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
Here however, (though this is not probable,) there may arise some compensatory cases of subscribers altogether new.
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