🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

compensatório

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kõpẽsaˈtoɾju

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Compensatory/kəmˈpɛn.səˌtɔːr.i/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles tiveram direito a folga compensatória."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Intended to recompense or make up for a loss, deficiency, or injury.

    "The employees received compensatory time off for working through the weekend."
  2. 2

    Serving to counterbalance or neutralize the effect of something else.

    "Her strong analytical skills acted as a compensatory mechanism for her lack of prior experience."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'compensatorius', stemming from the verb 'compensare' (to weigh against, counterbalance), composed of 'com-' (together) and 'pendere' (to weigh). Entering English in the early 17th century, the term initially carried the legal and economic sense of balancing debts, later broadening to describe any action or mechanism that offsets a deficit, loss, or deficiency.

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