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compensation
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French compensacion, from Latin compens?ti?nem, accusative singular of compens?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?mp?n?se???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
compensation (countable and uncountable, plural compensations)
- The act or principle of compensating.
- Synonym: restitution
- Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.
- Synonyms: amends, remuneration, recompense
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations […] vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.
- (finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.
- Synonym: set-off
- A recompense or reward for service.
- Synonym: restitution
- (real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.
- The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.
- (neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).
- Coordinate term: degeneracy
Derived terms
Related terms
- compensate
Translations
Anagrams
- camponotines, companion set
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comp?ns?ti?, comp?ns?ti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.p??.sa.sj??/
Noun
compensation f (plural compensations)
- compensation
Related terms
- compenser
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rent
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?nt, IPA(key): /??nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of redd?.
Noun
rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- I am asking £100 a week rent.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) Income; revenue.
- [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Finnish: ränttü
Translations
Verb
rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
Translations
See also
- hire
Etymology 2
From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
Noun
rent (plural rents)
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- A division or schism.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
- […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
Translations
Verb
rent
- simple past tense and past participle of rend
Adjective
rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)
- That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
Anagrams
- tern, tren
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??nt/, [??æ?nd?]
Adjective
rent
- neuter singular of ren
Adverb
rent
- purely (morally)
- purely (excluding other possibility)
- quite, completely
Derived terms
- gøre rent (“to clean”)
- rent ud (“point-blank”)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nt
- IPA(key): /r?nt/
Verb
rent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
- (archaic) plural imperative of rennen
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
rent
- neuter singular of ren
Adverb
rent
- purely
Verb
rent
- past participle of renne
References
- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
rent
- past participle of renna
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?nt/
Adjective
rent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.
Adverb
rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)
- cleanly
- purely
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