(v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
(v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
(v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
(v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
(n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had raised the possibility of calling witnesses to testify "if it really is the case that legitimate lobbyists could be paid 30% of the value of a $40m contract simply as recompense for their time and trouble".
(2) In 1952-61 44 cases of lung cancer were reported in conjunction with radioactive substances, in 1962-85 already 1511 patients were recompensated.
(3) Coagulation-analysis control of the development shows clearly that shock treatment and maintenance of adequate circulation, starting at the earliest possible moment at the scene of the accident, are important for spontaneous recompensation of the hemostatic defect.
(4) Key findings included the following: 1) for a least 40% of outpatient schizophrenics, drugs seem to be essential for survival in the community; 2) the majority of patients who relapse after drug withdrawal recompensate fairly rapidly upon reinstitution of antipsychotic drug therapy; 3) placebo survivors seem to function as well as drug survivors--thus the benefit of maintenance drug therapy appears to be prevention of relapse; and 4) some cases of early relapse after drug withdrawal may be due to dyskinesia rather than psychotic decompensation.
(5) Doctors were happy with the deal, seeing a pay freeze as adequate recompense for the government backing away from patient choice.
(6) Preliminary loop cutaneous ureterostomy diversion allowed adequate ureteral recompensation such that ureteral tapering was unnecessary in any of these cases.
(7) The international community agreed to examine options for a mechanism for poor countries to seek recompense.
(8) Whichever way the matter is eventually settled, Johnson feels those involved in the England 2018 campaign are in effect fraud victims and should be recompensed for what has proved a considerable waste of time and money, effort and energy.
(9) It’s not just recompense for Benn’s historic defeat, but one better.
(10) Coad, representing Edmonds, said: “Noel has waited 10 years to see justice done after his business empire was brought down by Mr Dobson’s fraud, and if the Lloyds review process does not provide the recompense due to Noel, then all the necessary ordinance, including litigation funding, is in place to start legal proceedings.” Lloyds said the £100m compensation pot could be increased if necessary.
(11) A spokesman for the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS foundation trust said: “During the same period, NHS activity at the trust has increased by 25%; but this has been insufficiently funded under the current NHS tariff system, which is widely recognised as not recompensing highly complex work.
(12) It was agreed that the Obama administration would pay Tehran $1.7bn to recompense Iran for an aborted arms deal drawn up before the 1979 Islamic revolution.
(13) Recompensation, possibly through the use of another person as a transitional object, was noted during the illness.
(14) While this principle – that victims can seek recompense from those who have harmed them — is central to the law of most countries, it remains a politically contentious topic in the international context of climate change.
(15) I didn't buy the State of Israel being the recompense for the murder of European Jewry, recompense not being quite the right word, of course.
(16) This paper discusses the application of basic theories of family functioning to understanding the syndrome consisting of abnormal-illness behaviour centred around a recompensable illness or injury.
(17) A report is given on a patient with ischaemic heart disease, whose recompensation in tachyarrhythmia absoluta was for some times possible only by means of unusually high doses of digitoxin (fully effective dose to 5.72 mg, maintenance dose to 0.4 mg).
(18) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
(19) The Guardian columnist George Monbiot has reached what he called an "unprecedented" libel settlement with Lord McAlpine , pledging to carry out three years of charity work as recompense for Twitter messages that wrongly linked the former Conservative chairman with an allegation of child sex abuse.
(20) "Good conduct" showed a slight decrease as the challenging character of recompense grew smaller, but was still above the initial level.
Repair
Definition:
(v. i.) To return.
(v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
(n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
(n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
(v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
(v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
(n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
(n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(4) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
(6) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
(7) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(8) Carotid artery injury seems to have a good prognosis if repaired promptly within 3 h.
(9) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
(10) In situ repair was performed in 30 patients (arterial bypass: 17 patients; splenorenal bypass: 13 patients).
(11) Repair may be accomplished by open or closed techniques.
(12) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(13) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
(14) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(15) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
(16) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(17) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
(18) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
(19) Such lesions should be chemically stable and should not be recognized by DNA-repair enzymes.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.