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Compensation vs Wagers - What's the difference?

compensation | wagers |

As nouns the difference between compensation and wagers

is that compensation is the act or principle of compensating while wagers is plural of wager.

As a verb wagers is

third-person singular of wager.

compensation

English

(wikipedia compensation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or principle of compensating.
    • (Emerson)
  • That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
  • * Hallam
    • The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
  • * Burke
    • No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
  • The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.
  • A recompense or reward for some loss or service.
  • An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
  • The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of compensating) restitution * (recompense or reward) restitution

    Derived terms

    * overcompensation

    wagers

    English

    Noun

    (head)
    • Some gamblers make wagers all day long.
    The Spartans were wagers of war.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wager)
    • A clever gambler wagers just enough to get ahead of the game, but not so much that he could be knocked out.