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UK
/ɹˈɛkəmpˌɛns/
]
[ US /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/ ]
VERB
-
make payment to; compensate
My efforts were not remunerated -
make amends for; pay compensation for
One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich
She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident
NOUN
- payment or reward (as for service rendered)
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
How To Use recompense In A Sentence
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- A native title ‘claim’ is not technically made for recompense for past loss, but for the recognition of current but inchoate rights.
- They claim for the bath plug, and in the act of seeking recompense for such a small and essential item they show their incredible greed. Times, Sunday Times
- Heath adds that the rent of land ‘is a voluntary recompense for distributive services.’
- Many small farms were indeed still let to some cottagers at rack-rent, which cottages had the right of commonage, guaranteed to them in their leases; but afterwards the commons were enclosed, and no recompense was made to the tenants by the landlords. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- Tomorrow makes the same demands, and offers a similar recompense. Times, Sunday Times
- However, asking for direct recompense is problematic for several reasons.
- But however many were in the household, we would know that in her setting, her days would ordinarily be taken up with the hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages: to feed and clothe and nurture her growing household.
- They suffer, they die, yet they won't receive any recompense.
- Stone's time, in other words, is unrecompensed.
