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# compensated

verb form (compensate, compensates, compensated, compensating); adjective (compensated)

«compensated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. If you are compensated, you are given money or something else to make up for a loss, harm or work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#m1)
2. If one thing compensated for another, it balanced or made up for it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#m2)

### In the lessons

Adult life (workers compensated for extra hours, families compensated after a flood), law and fairness, science (the body compensated for the cold).

### Examples

- The family was compensated for the damage to their house. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x1)
- Passengers were compensated for the late train. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x2)
- His speed compensated for his size. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x3)
- Workers are compensated for overtime. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x4)
- She was not compensated for her help. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x5)
- The good ending compensated for the slow start. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/#x6)

### Note

Pattern: be compensated for something. Noun: compensation. In money problems: the compensation is the amount paid to make up the loss.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «compensated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compensated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«compensated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/compensated.html) on Mova free.