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recompensation

recompensation

1 8.2
Something, usually money, given to reward effort or to make up for loss
  • noun
  • /ˌrɛkəmˈpɛnseɪʃən/
translation icon : compensación
  • A couple of prosecutions, Ken Lay's fake death, no recompensation, and federal agencies (FERC) making deals with perpetrators to: a) seal records of their "confessions" and b) promise no fines/prosecutions.

Examples

  • After the accident, she received recompensation for her medical expenses and lost wages.

  • You mean motives besides monetary recompensation?

    Super Size Me (2004)

  • The company offered a generous recompensation to employees affected by the layoffs.

  • The charity provided recompensation to families who lost their homes in the disaster.

Synonyms

compensation
vsrecompensation
214 3.6

Money given to pay someone for work and to make up for loss or injury

is broader, also covering reward for effort as well as loss
payment
vsrecompensation
51 1.0

Something done or given to return help and make up for harm

is broader, also meaning a reward or formal compensation for loss
reimbursement
vsrecompensation
49 4.0

Money paid back to someone for costs they paid

covers reward and making up losses, not only expense repayment
restitution
vsrecompensation
  • Specialized
38 6.9

Giving back something lost or paying money for damage

includes monetary reward or compensation as an alternative to return
reparation
vsrecompensation
19 6.8

Giving money or help to make up for a wrong

is used more widely for general reward or loss compensation
recompense
vsrecompensation
8 7.7

Money given to make up for loss, harm, or effort

is the same meaning but presented as a different form
indemnification
vsrecompensation
  • Formal
2 8.8

Money that a person receives for loss, damage, or injury

is more general, including nontechnical reward as well as payment
giveback
vsrecompensation
  • Jargon
1 5.0

A payment returned to customers as a reward

is more general, also covering compensation for loss or effort
amends
vsrecompensation
3.5

Actions or money given to make up for harm someone caused

is broader, applying also to payment as reward or loss repair

How Compensated

indemnity
  • Formal
4 8.4
settlement
  • Formal
384 3.3
recompensation
1 8.2
payment
805 1.0
token
29 3.4

Surface Forms

recompensation singular
recompensations plural

Morphology

recompensation = compensation (semi-transparent) = re + compensation

The form shows a clear 're-' + 'compensation' structure, but the meaning is not reliably 'again compensation' and the word is rare, so learners may be misled.

Etymology

Recompensation comes from re- meaning 'again' and the familiar word compensation, which comes from an old root meaning 'to weigh' or 'to balance', so it originally meant giving something to 'make things even'. So, recompensation today means money or something given to reward effort or to make up for a loss, damage, or injury.