Compensatory

Word COMPENSATORY
Character 12
Hyphenation com pen sa to ry
Pronunciations /kɒm.pɛnˈseɪ.tər.i/

Definitions and meanings of "Compensatory"

What do we mean by compensatory?

(of a payment) Intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury.

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The word "compensatory" in example sentences

Rosette says that when successful organizations are led by black managers, the strong performance is attributed to broad market factors over which the leader had no control, or to what she calls "compensatory stereotypes," such as humor or public-speaking skills, which would make up for any lack in competence. ❋ Unknown (2012)

2 For a brief definition of the term compensatory lengthening and some interesting examples of it, see an abstract of Campos-Astorkiza, "A Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening", Phonology and Phonetics in Iberia (June 2005) (or view the pdf here). ❋ Unknown (2008)

If humanity is interned within a capitalist state of affairs long enough (I would put it at 3 generations); have access to what I term compensatory and recuperative mechanisms; if the state of affairs have enough redressive (from the word ❋ Unknown (2009)

July 11th, 2009 3: 49 pm ET the closing line is not true. some of the ethics complaints have resulted in compensatory payments from Palin to the state of AK. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. ❋ AP (2010)

In her suit, she seeks $3 million in compensatory and punitive damages -- a fairly large sum though not an unprecedented total. ❋ Sam Stein (2010)

The family is asking for $25 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages from the police department. ❋ Hamil R. Harris (2010)

Roth seeks $21,000 for out of pocket expenses and $275,000 in compensatory damages for the emotional distress resulting from the sub-par treatment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The verdict included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against “Imperial Wizard” Ron Edwards. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is built-in compensatory elements, for this event will save many people who were otherwise hopeless. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2007)

Defense attorney Jonathan Katz's argument that the $2. 9m in compensatory damages already far exceeded the defendants 'net worth and would be enough to "bankrupt them and financially destroy them" was ignored. ❋ Necrobutcher (2007)

Chiefly, though, he was concerned that if your thoughts turned too much towards otherworldliness and became trapped in compensatory religious structures of the imagination, then your sensibility would move away from nature even more, and closer to apocalyptic fancies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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