Thesaurus:compensation
English
Noun
Sense: something which corrects, satisfies or makes up for a loss
Synonyms
- amends
- acquittal
- assyth (obsolete)
- bote (historical)
- compensation
- indemnification
- indemnity
- mends (chiefly Scotland)
- quittal (obsolete)
- recompensation (sometimes proscribed)
- recompense
- redress
- relief (law)
- remuneration
- reparation
- requital
- requite
- restitution [⇒ thesaurus]
- satisfaction
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- autocompensation
- blood money
- conscience money
- eric (historical)
- just compensation
- launegild
- hadbot (historical)
- magbote (historical)
- manbote (historical)
- microreparations
- octogild (historical)
- orfgild (historical)
- overcompensation
- precompensation
- severance pay
- solatium
- war reparations
- wer (historical)
- wergeld (historical)
- —
- workman's compensation
- workmen's compensation
- worker's compensation
- workers' compensation
- —
- malcompensation
- undercompensation
Various
See also
Further reading
- “30. compensation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “952. atonement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “compensation” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.