compensate
Example Sentences
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The lawsuit accuses the city of taking no efforts to stop trespassers and failing to compensate the owners for their loss of use and enjoyment of the property.
From Los Angeles Times
The late-1990s settlement compensated bank account holders, slave laborers and others who had assets looted or were refused refuge in Switzerland.
Pretending otherwise forces the Fed to compensate with blunt instruments that carry their own costs.
From Barron's
They often compensate villagers when carnivores kill their livestock or herbivores eat their crops.
And he compensates for Mr. Sanders’s silence by having “hundreds of hours of conversation with dozens of individuals”—including Bernie’s loquacious older brother, Larry.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
