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compensations
 
Noun compensation has 3 senses
  1. compensation - something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
    --1 is a kind of     recompense
    --1 has particulars:
     overcompensation; workmen's compensation; reimbursement; emolument; blood money; damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress; counterbalance, offset; reparation; reparation
    Derived forms: verb compensate4, verb compensate5, verb compensate2, verb compensate6
  2. compensation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
    --2 is a kind of     defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
    --2 has particulars: overcompensation
    Derived form: verb compensate3
  3. recompense, compensation - the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
    --3 is a kind of correction, rectification
    --3 has particulars: indemnification
    Derived forms: verb compensate1, verb compensate4, verb compensate5, verb compensate2, verb compensate6
compensater compensatin compensating compensating balance compensation compensation compensation for fine compensation3 compensations compensative compensator compensatory compensatory compensatory damages compensatory off duty compensatory spending compensatory time

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