compensate

Verb

• make payment to; compensate
  • My efforts were not remunerated
    

• do or give something to somebody in return
  • Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
    

• make reparations or amends for
  • right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
    

• make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
  • he is compensating for being a bad father
    

• make amends for; pay compensation for
  • One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich
    
  • She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident
    

• adjust for
  • engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  recompense , remunerate , pay , pay off , make up , right , redress , correct , cover , overcompensate , repair , indemnify , counterbalance , even out , even off , even up