Both Uses of
compensate
in
The Chrysalids
- She did not find that a marriage service generated love; she did not enable her husband to recapture his youth through hers; nor could she compensate for that by running his home in the manner of an experienced housekeeper.†
Chpt 2
- The greater part of the smoke from it went out of the entrance; the rest did at least have the compensation that it helped to obscure the interior of the cave from any outside observation.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
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(compensate as in: she is generously compensated) to make payment to someone