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compensation

[kom-puhn-sey-shuhn] / ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃən /


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When a major studio buys its competitor, it leads to lower compensation for industry workers and reduced choices and diversity for audiences.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

It adds streamers should not have their work commercially exploited to develop AI without consent or compensation.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

The first is “what the market believes the average short-term interest rate will be over the next decade,” while the second is the “additional compensation investors require for bearing the uncertainty around that path.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Plagiarism can be defined as the appropriation of someone else’s words or ideas without acknowledgment or compensation.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Mr. Butterbur paid for it himself, and offered Merry another eighteen pence as some compensation for the lost animals.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But all the compensations, all the progress anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

Edinburgh Employment Tribunal ruled that PC Jones should be awarded compensations of £24,800 and PC Tunnock should receive £23,824.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2025

Pratt and Whitney, a subsidiary of RTX, booked a $2.48 billion operating loss in the reported quarter related to engine recalls and compensations to airlines.

From Reuters Oct. 24, 2023

Naqvi said the compensations would be completed within the next 48 hours and said that authorities have begun to repair the churches.

From Washington Times Aug. 21, 2023

The life of a soldier was.not without certain compensations.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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