- compensation
- n1. remuneration, payment, pay, Brit. Sl. get; salary, wages, emolument, consideration, hire; earnings, income, revenue, profits; charge, Hist. scot, fee, stipend, honorarium; reward, bonus, grant, benefaction; tip, gratuity, douceur, Fr. pourboire; bribe, hush money, payola, graft; commission, percentage, share, brokerage; cut, slice, Inf. rake-off, Inf. kickback.2. repayment, reimbursement; satisfaction, damages, Law. solatium, indemnification, indemnity, recoupment; restitution, penalty, fine, (in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic countries) wergild; requital, quittance, return, redress; atonement, amends, expiation, reparation, retribution.3. retaliation, reprisal, vengeance; reciprocation, tit for tat, quid pro quo, an eye for an eye, a Roland for an Oliver.4. counterbalance, counterweight, counterpoise, offset, equivalent; neutralization, nullification cancellation; counteraction, reaction; equalization, balance, symmetry; adjustment, accommodation, handicap, adaptation.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.