compensate
verb (used with object)
to recompense for something.
uncompensated
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a word derived from
compensate.
Example Sentences
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“Beef” links the potential liabilities women face by locking into long-term relationships to the realities of the capitalist trap, which draws women into not only unpaid housework but uncompensated emotional labor, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
Brad Wiewel, a Texas trust attorney, called it “very highly unusual” and not advisable to have such a trustee be uncompensated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Also important to administrators was an agreement to place boundaries on the potentially unlimited, uncompensated work expectations that accompany the job of principal and assistant principal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Hospitals may be forced to reduce services and staffing due to higher costs for uncompensated care, according to KFF, a nonprofit health research organization.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
Workers were paid by the ton, which both encouraged them to hack out coal with reckless haste and meant that any labor they expended making their environment safer or more comfortable went uncompensated.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
