Rebate vs Compensate - What's the difference?
rebate | compensate |
A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To diminish or lessen something
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
* Shakespeare
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
To abate; to withdraw.
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
(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.
* Francis Bacon
* Prior
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
As verbs the difference between rebate and compensate
is that rebate is to deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment while compensate is to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.As a noun rebate
is a deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.rebate
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rebat)- But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
- (Foxe)
Anagrams
* * * English transitive verbs ----compensate
English
Verb
(compensat)- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- 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.
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
- The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
- 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 * recompensateSynonyms
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
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* 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