| verb | adjust for “engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance” |
| verb | make amends for; pay compensation for “One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich” |
| verb | make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities “he is compensating for being a bad father” |
| verb | make reparations or amends for “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust” |
| verb | do or give something to somebody in return “Does she pay you for the work you are doing?” |
| verb | make payment to; compensate “My efforts were not remunerated” |
| compensation | noun | the act of compensating for service or loss or injury |
| counterbalance | noun | a compensating equivalent |
| corrective | adjective | tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition |
| reparation | noun | compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury |
| indemnification | noun | a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
| indemnity | noun | a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
| overcompensation | noun | (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite |
| right | noun | (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing |
| redress | noun | act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil |
| pay | noun | something that remunerates |
| payee | noun | a person to whom money is paid |
| payer | noun | a person who pays money for something |
| recompense | noun | the act of compensating for service or loss or injury |
| remunerative | adjective | producing a sizeable profit |
| remuneration | noun | something that remunerates |
| remunerator | noun | a person who pays money for something |