Meaning of COMPENSATORY
| Pronunciation: | | kum'pensu`towree
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| | Definition: | | [adj] compensating for |
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| | Synonyms: | | compensative, counteractive, countervailing, offsetting |
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| | Definition: | | \Com*pen"sa*to*ry\, a.
Serving for compensation; making amends. --Jer. Taylor.
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| | Related Terms: | | amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing, compensating, compensational, compensative, counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory, indemnificatory, lucrative, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, moneymaking, offsetting, paying, penitential, piacular, profitable, propitiatory, punitive, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reciprocal, reclamatory, recompensing, recompensive, rectifying, redeeming, redemptional, redemptive, redressing, remunerative, reparative, reparatory, repaying, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, reversional, reversionary, revertible, rewardful, rewarding, righting, satisfactional, satisfying, squaring |
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