All 4 Uses
compensate
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- The compensation is entered.†
Chpt 1.
- Maintaining a steady thirty-knot forward speed to compensate for the carrier's forward speed, he side-slipped his fighter neatly to the right, then dropped it gently amidships, slightly forward of the Kennedy's island structure, exactly in the center of the flight deck.†
Chpt 7.
- One of the compensations for wearing a uniform and earning less money than an equally talented man can make in the real world is the off chance of being killed.†
Chpt 13. *
- She was still down by the bow, which was partially compensated for when the intact ballast tanks were blown dry.†
Chpt 18. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(compensate as in: she compensates with extra effort) make up for; or adjust for
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(2)
(compensate as in: she is generously compensated) to make payment to someone
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)