compensate
Example Sentences
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Employees who design the technology are a form of human capital, and are compensated in stock to reflect that.
The rationale is simple: Most startups fail, so the rare successes must be allowed to compensate meaningfully for those losses.
He noticed Rashawn angling to his side, and he hoped it would be enough to compensate for the drift when she was in the air.
From Literature
Downhill ski racers are not running backs or point guards, however, and don’t make those same jolting lateral moves and therefore, experts say, are better able to compensate for a torn ACL.
From Los Angeles Times
But by year end, the Tech selloff deepened to the point where strong gains elsewhere could no longer compensate.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
