compensate
Example Sentences
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China, to compensate, has flooded the rest of the world with cheap goods.
As did Leyla, who had begun ordering more chocolate and strawberry cups to compensate for the ones the two of them ate.
From Literature
The lawsuit accuses the city of taking no efforts to stop trespassers and failing to compensate the owners for their loss of use and enjoyment of the property.
From Los Angeles Times
The late-1990s settlement compensated bank account holders, slave laborers and others who had assets looted or were refused refuge in Switzerland.
Pretending otherwise forces the Fed to compensate with blunt instruments that carry their own costs.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
