Usually means: Provide payment for work done.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word compensate:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensate: Merriam-Webster
  2. compensate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compensate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compensate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compensate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compensate, compensate: Wordnik
  7. compensate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compensate: Wiktionary
  9. compensate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compensate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compensate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. compensate: Dictionary.com
  13. compensate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. compensate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Compensate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Compensate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. compensate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. compensate: Rhymezone
  19. compensate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. compensate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. compensate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. compensate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. compensate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. compensate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. compensate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. compensate: Legal dictionary
  4. compensate: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compensate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. compensate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compensate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Compensate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See compensated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To do (something good) after (something bad) happens
verb:  To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
verb:  To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

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