Definition of Compensatory

1. a. Serving for compensation; making amends.

Definition of Compensatory

1. Adjective. That compensates, or serves as compensation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Compensatory

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Compensatory

1. Providing compensation; making up for a deficiency or loss. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compensatory

compensating curve
compensating emphysema
compensating eyepieces
compensating ocular
compensation
compensation culture
compensation neurosis
compensational
compensations
compensative
compensatively
compensator
compensatorily
compensatorily lengthen
compensators
compensatory (current term)
compensatory atrophy
compensatory circulation
compensatory damages
compensatory hypertrophy
compensatory hypertrophy of the heart
compensatory lengthening
compensatory pause
compensatory spending
compensatory time
comper
compere
compered
comperes

Literary usage of Compensatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. California Jurisprudence: A Complete Statement of the Law and Practice of by William Mark McKinney (1922)
"GROUNDS OF compensatory DAMAGES. In General. § 13. Theory of compensatory Damages.—compensatory damages are not the cause of action. ..."

2. Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1894)
"This argument I would term the "special compensatory theory" as over against ... The general compensatory theory upholds progression asa general principle ..."

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