Synonyms for compensation
Most common
reward wages remuneration recompense indemnity indemnification
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Recompense — something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss
recompense, remuneration, pay, reward, wages, payment, wage, allowance, stipend, price, amends, retribution, emolument formal, consideration
2. Indemnity — the act or principle of compensating
indemnity, indemnification, restitution, satisfaction, redress, atonement, reparation, damages, expiation, requital, redemption, propitiation, recompensation rare
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The act or principle of compensating.
- n. 2
Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
Related words
- Word family
- compensate
- Phrases
- time-gain compensation compensation balance compensation neurosis compensation pendulum
- Is a kind of
- action money payment reimbursement
Forms
- Plural
- compensations → recompenses, remunerations, pays, rewards…
Choose the right word
Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- reward The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
- wages Profits are the unpaid wages of the working class.
- remuneration What are your expectations in terms of remuneration?
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| compensation | falling | |
| reward | rising | |
| wages | falling | |
| remuneration | falling | |
| recompense | steady | |
| indemnity | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pay1
- 4 letters
- wage1
- 5 letters
- price1, wages2
- 6 letters
- reward2, amends2
- 7 letters
- payment2, damages3, redress2, stipend2
- 8 letters
- requital
- 9 letters
- allowance3, atonement3, indemnity4, expiation, emolument
- 10 letters
- redemption3, recompense3, reparation4
- 11 letters
- retribution4, restitution4
- 12 letters
- satisfaction4, remuneration5, propitiation
- 13 letters
- consideration5
- 14 letters
- recompensation
- 15 letters
- indemnification6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wages2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- compensation
- Italiano
- compensazione
- Español
- compensación