(v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
(v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
(v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(3) Medical prevention and technique and then compensation for these occupational nuisances are then described.
(4) The hemorrhagic syndrome (HS) was identified in 16% of patients with chronic active hepatitis, in 26% with compensated and in 76% with decompensated LC.
(5) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(6) level was increased in 13 of 19 measurements made in this group, state named "compensated hypothyroidism" according to Patel and Burger.
(7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(8) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(9) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(10) Sympathochromaffin catecholamines are not normally critical but compensate and become critical when glucagon is deficient.
(11) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
(12) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(13) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
(14) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(15) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(16) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(17) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
(18) Adreno-cortical compensation of the concentration of the hormone did not occur in the post-castration period.
(19) The principle of antagonistic compensation was presented by RIESENFELD in 1966 to explain the relative shortening and broadening of hypofunctional bones.
(20) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
Indemnify
Definition:
(v. t.) To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
(v. t.) To make restitution or compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evaluation, in relation to the different indemnifying, is differentiated.
(2) Prosecutor Andrew Edis said it was still not clear if Coulson's costs would be indemnified against costs.
(3) The company chosen to do the hauling should be able to demonstrate that they have appropriate insurance to indemnify your office in the event of a problem while they have the waste in their possession.
(4) Meanwhile analysts think that Google, which writes the Android mobile software used by Samsung and dozens of others, may have to indemnify handset makers against such lawsuits.
(5) This emotional reward indemnifies the future of private practice, because it can exist only in the presence of a close patient-physician relationship, which is the cornerstone of the private practice of ophthalmology.
(6) The lawyers said that baseball also promised to provide security for Bosch, cover his legal bills and indemnify him from civil liability over the case.
(7) Stuart Kuttner, former managing editor of the News of the World, is seeking £135,000 of costs incurred before News UK indemnified him in January last year.
(8) Instead, officials with knowledge of the rendition operations stressed that they were "ministerially authorised government policy", suggesting that any intelligence officers involved were indemnified against prosecution or civil proceedings in the UK when an authorisation was signed by a government minister under section seven of the Intelligence Services Act – a clause described by some MPs as "a licence to kill".
(9) She dropped the claim after News UK – the News Corp subsidiary that under a previous guise as News International published the now-defunct News of the World – which was indemnifying her costs, said it would not be seeking to be reimbursed following her acquittal on all charges.
(10) One idea is that rights holders might look to indemnify ISPs against being sued by websites that take action over being blocked in order to give confidence that they will not face large payouts.
(11) The league said that Shelly Sterling and the Sterling family trust also "agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the NBA against lawsuits from others, including Donald Sterling”.
(12) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
(13) But liabilities keep mounting in the company's core casualty business, which indemnifies individuals and companies against damage to themselves and their properties.
(14) It also favours an Ofcom-style regulator for supermarkets to address day-to-day abuses of power towards consumers and suppliers, and for government to indemnify councils against legal costs of supermarket planning disputes.
(15) Although the nurse has admitted being in breach of her duty, she claims the company should have indemnified her.
(16) The act could also indemnify companies acting for security purposes from civil and criminal liability, including violating a user's privacy, provided these were not intentional, the group warned.
(17) The publisher’s decision also means other cleared defendants in the trial who were indemnified by News UK have dropped their cost claims.
(18) The government will indemnify the private contractors, which means the taxpayer will be left to foot the bill for any leak, a similar arrangement to how things stand now.
(19) After having reviewed all the 22 patients in Belgium who are indemnified for isocyanate occupational asthma, the authors cannot find any significant factor that would permit screening and previous eviction (atopy, smoking habits).
(20) An insurance policy, at small cost, might be offered to indemnify couples against costs of abortion, tubal division, or maternity care the operation had failed or not.