compensate
verb (used with object)
to recompense for something.
well-compensated
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a word derived from
compensate.
Example Sentences
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US tech workers are typically well-compensated, external, and while other industries such as investment banking, law and medicine also often see people work long hours, a 14-hour workday was not always the norm in tech.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
This idea that well-compensated employees become avid consumers who, in a virtuous cycle, support profitable companies, guided U.S. industry for much of the 20th century.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
“The potential to build a long-term, well-compensated career in this industry is very real,” the National Pest Management Association told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
Behind the wave of white-collar layoffs, in part, is the embrace by companies of artificial intelligence, which executives hope can handle more of the work that well-compensated white-collar workers have been doing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Brain work is pretty well lubricated in the well-compensated adrenal type.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
