comp
1a ticket, book, service, etc., provided free of charge to specially chosen recipients.
complimentary; free of charge: I received a comp copy of her book.
to provide with a comp: Some casinos comped the biggest spenders, providing rooms and meals on the house.
to provide free of charge: His meals and drinks at the hotel were often comped.
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to compose (type).
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to accompany a soloist with a succession of irregularly spaced chords that punctuate the rhythm.
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comparative.
compare.
compensation.
compilation.
compiled.
compiler.
complement.
complete.
composition.
compositor.
compound.
comprehensive.
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How to use comp in a sentence
As soon as someone can find a job that pays better, offers medical benefits or worker’s comp, or puts less physical strain on the body, they quit.
Caring for the elderly has never been more expensive, exhausting, or invisible | Anne Helen Petersen | August 26, 2021 | VoxThe results don’t jump off the page, but using typical minor league metrics to evaluate the 30-year-old who missed three years isn’t likely to yield many comps.
This Former No. 1 Pick Is Trying To Forge An MLB Career … At Age 30 | Howard Megdal | August 19, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe format would mean that speed climbing, considered somewhat gimmicky by most comp climbers, would be given equal weight to the more revered and established disciplines of sport climbing and bouldering.
A Surprise Finish—and Silver Medal for the U.S.—in Sport Climbing’s Olympic Debut | jversteegh | August 5, 2021 | Outside OnlineHis manager, Tony La Russa, even threw an Adam Wainwright comp on him.
One Month Into The MLB Season, Which Rookies Are Standing Out? | Howard Megdal | May 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightLiberian taxes will be initially be deducted, but “MAY be comp'd” considering the “high priority International situation.”
But a bigger problem is that employers know why people get a PhD in comp Lit or Religious Studies: so they can be a professor.
Co-producer Margaret Young added that she would be more than happy to comp Romney and Huntsman copies of the film.
LinkedIn is like a comp in real estate: the price that will help determine the worth of homes in that same neighborhood.
Forget CEO comp: Business and political honchos can pull down seven figures attending a few meetings.
The demonstrative adverb thus implies a relative adverb: comp.
Milton's Comus | John MiltonIn this participle the termination -ing seems almost equivalent to that of the past participle: comp.
Milton's Comus | John MiltonTh' brokerage house iv Conem an' comp'ny wint into th' hands iv a receiver to-day.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneSivral times I wint to th' dinin'-room intindin' to jine th' jovyal comp'ny there but quit at th' dure.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneThere is no hearth as ample in anny man's home as th' hearth th' Steel comp'ny does its cookin' by.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley Dunne
British Dictionary definitions for comp
/ (kɒmp) informal /
a compositor
an accompanist
an accompaniment
a competition
(intr) to work as a compositor in the printing industry
to play an accompaniment (to)
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