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What (who) is Recompense - definition
recompense
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['r?k?mp?ns]
¦ verb
1. compensate (someone) for loss or harm.
pay or reward for effort or work.
make amends to or reward someone for (loss, harm, or effort).
2. archaic punish or reward appropriately.
¦ noun
1. compensation or reward.
2. archaic restitution made or punishment inflicted for a wrong or injury.
Origin
ME: from OFr., from recompenser, from late L. recompensare, from L. re- 'again' + compensare 'weigh one thing against another'.
recompense
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(recompenses, recompensing, recompensed)
1.
If you are given something, usually money, in recompense, you are given it as a reward or because you have suffered. (FORMAL)
He demands no financial recompense for his troubles...
Substantial damages were paid in recompense.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n, in N
2.
If you recompense someone for their efforts or their loss, you give them something, usually money, as a payment or reward. (FORMAL)
The fees offered by the NHS do not recompense dental surgeons for their professional time...
VERB: V n for n
Recompense
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·vi To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
II. Recompense ·vt To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
III. Recompense ·vt To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
IV. Recompense ·noun An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
V. Recompense ·vt To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, ·etc.; to Requite; to Remunerate; to Compensate.
Examples of use of Recompense
1. He told The Times: One would hope that schools would be offering some sort of recompense or the OFT may be suggesting some sort of recompense for that.
2. And Heather is worthy therefore, of fair recompense.
3. This seems a poor recompense for the public money Blackpool has staked already.
4. Yes, when it dictates that the unpaid wife of 30 years cannot be abandoned without recompense.
5. They are fed up with a life of much work and little recompense under fire.