verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
adequately
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Accordingly, adjustment via the exchange rate was not able to compensate adequately for long-term changes in competitive conditions.
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Critics also charge that ratepayers were not adequately compensated in the deal.
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If it did not, the plaintiff would be adequately compensated by damages.
for
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Deliberately, the colour has little force, but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety.
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Recently installed swimming-pool may compensate for sometimes impassable road.
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However, in the past, these businesses have been compensated for by very high profits when the business reaches take-off point.
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The alleged deficiency is compensated for by a neurologically based preference for Chomskian grammars.
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Some plants can compensate for quite heavy infestations provided there is sufficient time, and weather conditions remain favourable.
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Variations between local areas' needs can be measured and compensated for in national grants.
fully
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They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.
■ NOUN
amount
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No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.
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Admittedly these recipes call for extravagant amounts but you can compensate by eating smaller portions.
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Therefore, no amount of personality can compensate for mediocre chili. o Judging chili is very personal and subjective.
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This amount is called a compensating balance and effectively raises the cost of interest. are as previously specified.
damages
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In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit.
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Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through.
family
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Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour.
government
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Tourism industry leaders have called on the government to compensate them as well as the airlines.
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They want the government to compensate fully all Maxwell pensioners.
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Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession?
injury
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Quicksons has since been cleared of criminal negligence, but the Masons are determined that Ryan is compensated for his injuries .
investment
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Some investment managers may compensate by making a slight switch in emphasis towards capital growth investments and away from high yielding equities.
lack
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Not all such performances are inspiring, however, and a plenitude of decibels does not compensate for lack of quality.
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People got snappy, and nothing could compensate for the lack of leave.
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Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment.
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No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law.
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Agitation does not completely compensate for the lack of direct activity.
loss
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Tire companies therefore compensated for larger losses on tires sold to car makers by raising their margins on retail sales.
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The girl compensates for her loss by maintaining connectedness with others.
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But here again the gain in freedom from aversive stimulation may compensate for any loss of admiration.
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Congress is considering a supplemental appropriation to help compensate for that loss , Moos said.
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The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss .
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He will get one year with Cleveland to return to elite status and compensate for loss of Ramirez.
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After abandoning an appeal against the decision, Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings.
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He introduced feeling, compassion and pity to compensate for the loss of the comic element.
money
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But Bill says no amount of money can truly compensate for what he describes as three years of pain.
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But there was enough money to compensate farmers, and claims were being worked on as fast as possible.
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No amount of money can compensate for being bedridden or a semi-invalid.
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Both are using the power of privilege and big corporate money to compensate for their mediocrity.
plaintiff
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Damages are awarded to compensate the plaintiff for the injury to his reputation and the hurt to his feelings.
price
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The rural poor were not compensated by lower prices or by the greater availability of jobs for wives and children.
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The area aid is meant to be compensating for the price cuts.
risk
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The outcome will be influenced by their effort, but they need to be heavily compensated for bearing risks .
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Several estimates of the extra wage to compensate for risk cluster around $ 200, 000 per death in 1967 dollars.
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Lenders will want to be compensated more for the risk of default.
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Sure enough, over time, stocks pay a higher return, to compensate for the higher risk .
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The yield on junk bonds did not compensate for their risks , for two related reasons.
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Hazardous jobs include the risks of both death and injury, and the extra wages compensate both risks.
victim
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So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse.
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He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.
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This could take the form of compensating the victim of the offence or doing something else to assist the victim.
■ VERB
attempt
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Courts were generally regarded as fair, and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage.
try
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Shorn of Oliver's physical charisma and reserves of sullen, glowing mystery, Branagh tries to compensate with a pugnacious modernism.
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When it occurs, the body defences immediately try to compensate .
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Inflation will rise if workers try to compensate for the reduction in purchasing power by bargaining for higher pay.
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Lacking fresh tomatoes and meat we tried to compensate by piling tomato paste into all our stews and soups and sauces.
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Mr Wahid has tried to compensate for his economic shortcomings by surrounding himself with myriad layers of advisers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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No amount of money can compensate for my father's death.
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People are entitled to be compensated fully whenever they are injured by others' carelessness.
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The fund will compensate victims of smoking-related diseases.
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The workers have still not been compensated for their loss of wages.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Capital, like labor, was compensated at a rate corresponding to its marginal product.
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Given diminishing marginal utility of income, more income in one period can not compensate for lower income in another period.
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He was compensated by being raised, on 19 June 1627, to the earldom of Sunderland.
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If the company refuses to compensate you, you can take your complaint to small-claims court, Sack said.
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Photography could compensate for certain deficiencies in nature.
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She had also expressed great anxiety as to who was to compensate her for the loss of her fences and crop.
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To compensate , I told him to move to his left on the return of the serve.
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Your brain will think it's boiling outside, and compensate by cooling your skin down with a film of sweat.