Synonyms for compensation
ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃəncom·pen·sa·tion

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1. compensationnoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   allowance, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages

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1. compensation

   Synonyms:
   remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages

   Antonyms:
   deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage

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1. compensationnoun

   something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

   Synonyms:
   recompense

2. compensationnoun

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

   Synonyms:
   recompense

3. recompense, compensationnoun

   the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

   Synonyms:
   recompense

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1. • Correction
   • Defense Mechanism
   • Psychiatry
   • Recompense

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1. compensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   recompense, remuneration, reward

2. compensationnoun

   Synonyms:
   requital, satisfaction, indemnity, indemnification, reparation, amends

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1. List of paraphrases for "compensation":

   remuneration, reparation, indemnification, set-off, clearing, compensations, indemnity, redress, pay, compensating, allowance, compensatory, repair, earnings, reparations, offset, offsets, balancer, damages, allowances, compensated, award, compensate, compensable, setoff, offsetting, netting, severance, awards, indemnities, reimbursement, compensator, salary, repairs, payrolls, indemnifications, restitution, recompense, set-offs, payment, wage, compensability, repairing

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1. Archbishop Jerome Listecki:

   This has been a long process filled with prayer, patience and perseverance, but I am pleased to have reached the goal of providing compensation to those who have been harmed; creating a path toward healing; and allowing the church to continue its mission.

2. George Hobica:

   Airline staff have been given a lot more power and have become policemen in the skies since 9-11, i think many are abusing that authority. Most of your rights and company policies—including when you are entitled to compensation for your inconvenience— are spelled out in the conditions of carriage which can be found on an airline’s website. The lengthy terms are filled with jargon and legalese, though they’re still worth eyeballing to understand the basics. Here are key reasons why an airline can bump you or otherwise make travel difficult for you: 1. The airline priced tickets for this flight too low.If a carrier realizes through its electronic reservation system that a non-stop flight fills too fast, that could indicate the ticket fares are too cheap. In such a case, your flight could be switched from a non-stop to a connecting flight. 2. The air marshal needs your seat. Because air marshals protect the public, they are sometimes seated in first class without prior warning. If one of them shows up and needs your seat, you can be bumped, reassigned to another seat, or put on the next available flight. And you won’t even get an explanation; the government doesn’t want you to blab that there’s an air marshal on board. 3. The carrier abandons the route. Consolidation within the industry has prompted some airlines to cut back on the number of available flights. Some, such as Allegiant Air and Frontier, have also abandoned routes that are no longer profitable. An airline should be required to put you on another carrier for the price you paid, says Hobica. But that’s not the case.

3. Felipe Nasr:

   My sponsors paid the sponsorship fee related to the 2015 season in its entirety to Sauber in the first half of 2014. This was simply in good faith and to help the team deal with its cash problems at the time, effectively it was my sponsor's advanced payments that helped the team survive in 2014...I am not at liberty to discuss details but Sauber paid significant compensation to avoid honoring the contract they had with me.

4. Jesse Hurwitz:

   Diminishing labor market slack has led to a modest increase in wage growth, evident across several measures of worker compensation, we expect that wage growth will continue to move up gradually, helping core inflation return toward target once the headwinds from lower import prices subside.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   This strike should send a message to corporate CEOs across the country, it is absolutely unacceptable for profitable corporations to provide obscene compensation packages to executives, while ripping off workers and their families.