Antonyms for Compensation
ˌkɒm pənˈseɪ ʃəncom·pen·sa·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. compensationnoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   allowance, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. compensation

   Antonyms:
   deprivation, injury, nonpayment, gratuity, donation, fraudulence, damage

   Synonyms:
   remuneration, equivalent, wages, pay, allowance, restoration, restitution, satisfaction, atonement, expiation, indemnification, amercement, damages

Matched Categories

1. • Correction
   • Defense Mechanism
   • Psychiatry
   • Recompense

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. compensationnoun

   something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

   Synonyms:
   recompense

2. compensationnoun

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

   Synonyms:
   recompense

3. recompense, compensationnoun

   the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

   Synonyms:
   compensation, recompense

How to use Compensation in a sentence?

1. Jordan Wong:

   Your assumption that ‘campaign staffers [do] not receiv[e] health insurance coverage’ is not correct, our campaign employees continue to receive stipends for health insurance. They are deposited with their salaries, on top of the agreed-upon compensation for their work.

2. Howard Meyerowitz:

   What theytry to do is get that person out of the country, discharge them and then offer some kind of monetary compensation.

3. Billy Murphy:

   We are tired of the words. We want to see action, we want to see fair compensation for victims of police brutality, we want to see a fair response and an impartial investigation not cops investigating themselves.

4. The Department:

   Google agreed to enhance future compliance proactively and review its current policies, procedures and practices related to hiring, compensation ; conduct analyses ; and take corrective action to ensure non-discrimination.

5. Matthew Morgan:

   Rudy Giuliani himself, he requested an engagement letter, and he requested through a surrogate what was viewed as a large amount of compensation, and when I presented this to (Trump deputy campaign manager) Justin Clark, Justin Clark didn’t think that was a number the campaign was willing to pay and I relied on then Justin to tell me if we could do such an engagement letter and then it never materialized.

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