- compensation - something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)
--1 is a kind of recompense
--1 has particulars:overcompensation; workmen's compensation; reimbursement; emolument; blood money; damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress; counterbalance, offset; reparation; reparation Derived forms: verb compensate4, verb compensate5, verb compensate2, verb compensate6 - compensation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
--2 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
--2 has particulars: overcompensationDerived form: verb compensate3 - recompense, compensation - the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
--3 is a kind of correction, rectification
--3 has particulars: indemnificationDerived forms: verb compensate1, verb compensate4, verb compensate5, verb compensate2, verb compensate6