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Compensate vs Defray - What's the difference?

compensate | defray |

As verbs the difference between compensate and defray

is that compensate is to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration while defray is to spend (money).

compensate

English

Verb

(compensat)
  • To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
    • It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
  • (ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally]] or ([[metaphor, metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
    • His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
    To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
  • * Prior
    • The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
  • To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
    • I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
    To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.

    Derived terms

    * compensation * compensatory * recompense * recompensate

    Related terms

    * compensable * compensably

    Synonyms

    1. To pay * guerdon * reimburse to pay back 2. To make up for, correct, satisfy, or equalize, to balance the scales, to equalize or make even.
    * equate * offset * redeem * accord * reconcile * harmonize * atone * indemnify * requite * rectify * level * resolve * * amend * expiate * redress * remedy * remunerate * appease * restitute and restitution
    3. To adjust to a change.
    * acclimatize and acclimate * accommodate * accustom * adapt * accord * counterbalance * counteract * integrate * attune

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    defray

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To spend (money).
  • To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
    • The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.
  • * 2009 , ‘A Viennese grind’, The Economist , 30 Jul 2009:
    • Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.
  • * 2010 , Roy Greenslade, The Guardian , 9 Dec 2010:
    • In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.
  • To pay for (something).

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