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recompense
 
Noun recompense has 2 senses
  1. recompense - payment or reward (as for service rendered)
    --1 is a kind of     payment
    --1 has particulars: allowance, adjustment; compensation
    Derived form: verb recompense2
  2. recompense, compensation - the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
    --2 is a kind of correction, rectification
    --2 has particulars: indemnification
    Derived form: verb recompense2
Verb recompense has 2 senses
  1. compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify - make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
    --1 is one way to pay
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something to somebody
  2. compensate, recompense, remunerate - make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"
    --2 is one way to pay
    Derived forms: noun recompense2, noun recompense1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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