compensate · verb
Sens et exemples
Donner de l'argent ou un autre avantage pour réparer une perte, un dommage ou un préjudice.
The company agreed to compensate customers whose deliveries had been lost during the move to new premises.
Extra holiday cannot fully compensate employees for months of uncertainty about whether their jobs will continue.
Residents asked how they would be compensated for damage caused by the construction vehicles using their street.
The organisers offered free tickets to compensate visitors who had travelled a long distance for the cancelled performance.
Formes
- compensate base form
- compensates third-person singular present
- compensated past tense; past participle
- compensating present participle