COMPENSATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compensated mean? 

• COMPENSATED (adjective)
  The adjective COMPENSATED has 1 sense:

1. receiving or eligible for compensation

  Familiarity information: COMPENSATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPENSATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Receiving or eligible for compensation

Synonyms:

compensated; remunerated; salaried; stipendiary

Context example:

a stipendiary magistrate

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

 Context examples 

The hunters were snickering, but she looked at me with a sympathy in her eyes which more than compensated for Wolf Larsen’s nastiness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional strength in the others.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disease characterized by compensated hemolysis with a normal hemoglobin level or a mild to moderate anemia.

(Hemoglobin C Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly late, when it came its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A state of physiological or psychological stress that cannot be compensated for by normal adaptive measures.

(Distress, NCI Thesaurus)

As any economic activity is banned from the conservation units surveyed, the population living or working in the area should be compensated and resettled.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

The new study finds that, averaged over the past decade, the carbon flux in the tropics is about zero — meaning the additional amount of carbon being released by deforestation (an estimated 1.5 billion metric tons a year) is being compensated for by increased uptake in the remaining forest.

(World's forests increasingly taking up more carbon, National Science Foundation)

The glory of lodging over this structure would have compensated him, I dare say, for many inconveniences; but, as there were really few to bear, beyond the compound of flavours I have already mentioned, and perhaps the want of a little more elbow-room, he was perfectly charmed with his accommodation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But the beauty and regularity of the new town of Edinburgh, its romantic castle and its environs, the most delightful in the world, Arthur’s Seat, St. Bernard’s Well, and the Pentland Hills, compensated him for the change and filled him with cheerfulness and admiration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)