compensation
Noun
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is a type of: recompense - payment or reward (as for service rendered)subtypes:
- overcompensation - excessive compensation
- workmen's compensation - compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment
- reimbursement - compensation paid (to someone) for damages or losses or money already spent etc.
- emolument - compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
- blood money - compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
- amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- counterbalance, offset - a compensating equivalent
- reparation - (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
- reparation - compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury
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referred to in: psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disordersis a type of: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desiressubtypes: overcompensation - (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
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is a type of: correction, rectification - the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting rightsubtypes: indemnification - an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyancesame as: recompense
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