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compensatory

/kuhm-pen-suh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // kəmˈpɛn səˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //

补偿性,补偿性的,代偿性,赔偿性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
    • : countercyclical.

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Examples

  • Internally, LinkedIn has achieved a notable level of compensatory fairness among its employees.

  • Another possibility is that injured runners developed compensatory movement patterns that strengthened uninjured muscles while covering for the injured ones.

  • He missed 23 games from February to April with a hamstring strain, the sort of compensatory ailment that can follow a serious leg injury.

  • The plaintiffs in the current case are seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorneys’ fees.

  • If a single team loses minority candidates hired as both a head coach and GM elsewhere, it would receive third-round compensatory choices in the following three NFL drafts.

  • But there is a compensatory antidote: trade in the caffeine for cannabis.

  • Behind the impersonality of money lies an intensely personal, often compensatory compulsion.

  • Nor do I care for those compensatory honors that my position and family influence might have secured for me.

  • Since confederation it comes from compensatory subsidies, and the two last named sources.

  • Hence the agitation for compensatory clauses, enabling the tenant to safely invest all the capital he can procure in the soil.

  • One moral we have already deduced, in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.

  • Here however, (though this is not probable,) there may arise some compensatory cases of subscribers altogether new.