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Satisfaction vs Set-off - What's the difference?

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Satisfaction is a related term of set-off.


As nouns the difference between satisfaction and set-off

is that satisfaction is a fulfillment of a need or desire while set-off is that which is set off against another thing; an offset.

satisfaction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fulfillment of a need or desire.
  • :
  • The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
  • *(Henry David Thoreau) (1817-1862)
  • *:This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction .
  • *
  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction , looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • The source of such gratification.
  • A reparation for an injury or loss.
  • A vindication for a wrong suffered.

    • set-off

    English

    Noun

  • That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
  • * D. Jerrold
    • I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman.
  • (dated) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
  • (legal) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
  • (printing) An offset.

    • Usage notes

    * In the legal sense, set-off'' differs from ''recoupment : the latter generally grows out of the same matter or contract with the plaintiff's claim, while the former grows out of distinct matter, and does not of itself deny the justice of the plaintiff's demand. (Webster 1913)