compensate

Significado (Inglés)

  1. To do (something good) after (something bad) happens.
  2. To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
  3. (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
  4. To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

Frecuencia

C2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈkɒm.pən.seɪt/
Etimología (Inglés)

Borrowed from Latin compēnsātus, perfect passive participle of compensō (“to weight together one thing against another, balance, make good”), -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.

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