recompense
verb (used with object)
to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
recompensed
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past participleof recompense.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof recompense.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
recompenseverb (used with object)to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
Example Sentences
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Kennedy wasn’t extorted off the bench or recompensed for his vacancy.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2018
If people knew a radio station, a platform or a device was using a fair system, and that artists were being recompensed for their work directly, they’d go for it over another that didn’t.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2015
One need not be a political ideologue, he says, to believe that people have quantifiable value and deserve to be recompensed for it.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2013
The ECJ says long-delayed passengers should be recompensed as generously as those whose flights were cancelled.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2010
When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
