compensated
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Receiving or eligible for compensation: Describes someone who receives payment or benefits for work or services, or who qualifies to receive such payment. Often implies formal employment with wages or a salary.
- Made up for; offset: Describes a situation where a loss, disadvantage, or lack is counterbalanced by an equivalent gain or advantage.
Usage Examples
- Adjective (Receiving payment):
- All compensated employees are eligible for the company's health plan.
- The position is fully compensated and includes vacation days.
- Adjective (Offset):
- The joy of having a pet compensated for the extra work it required.
- His lack of experience was compensated by his remarkable enthusiasm and quick learning.
Advanced Usage
- "well-compensated": Receiving good or generous payment.
- She is a well-compensated executive in the technology sector.
- "duly compensated": Properly or appropriately paid for services or losses.
- The workers were duly compensated for their overtime hours.
Variants and Related Words
- Compensate (verb): To make up for something; to pay someone for work or for a loss.
- The company will compensate you for your travel expenses.
- Compensation (noun): Something, typically money, awarded to someone for loss, suffering, or injury; payment received for work.
- He received financial compensation for the accident.
- Compensatory (adjective): Intended to compensate for something.
- The court awarded compensatory damages.
Synonyms
- Paid: Receiving money for work.
- Remunerated: Rewarded or paid for services rendered.
- Recompensed: Repaid or rewarded for efforts or losses.
- Offset: Counterbalanced or made up for.
Antonyms
- Unpaid: Not receiving payment.
- Volunteer: Working without payment.
- Uncompensated: Not paid or rewarded; not made up for.
Adjective
- receiving or eligible for compensation
- salaried workers
- a stipendiary magistrate