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Compensation vs. Reparation — What's the Difference?

Compensation vs. Reparation — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Compensation and Reparation

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Compensation

The act of compensating or the state of being compensated.

Reparation

The act or process of making amends for a wrong.

Compensation

Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.

Reparation

Something done or money paid to make amends or compensate for a wrong.

Compensation

(Biology) The increase in size or activity of one part of an organism or organ that makes up for the loss or dysfunction of another.
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Reparation

Reparations Compensation or remuneration, as for damage or economic loss, required from a nation defeated in war.

Compensation

(Psychology) The act of consciously or unconsciously changing one's behavior to offset a real or imagined deficiency, as in personality or physical ability.

Reparation

The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.

Compensation

The act or principle of compensating.

Reparation

A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).

Compensation

Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.

Reparation

(archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
The reparation of a bridge or of a highway

Compensation

(finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.

Reparation

The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; - in this sense, repair is oftener used.

Compensation

A recompense or reward for service.

Reparation

The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity; -used, e.g. in the phrase make reparation, pay reparations, or make reparations.
I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

Compensation

(real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

Reparation

Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury;
An act for which there is no reparation

Compensation

The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

Reparation

(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors;
Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after Wordl War I

Compensation

(neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).

Reparation

The act of putting something in working order again

Compensation

The act or principle of compensating.

Reparation

Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong;
How can I make amends

Compensation

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners.
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them.

Compensation

The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.

Compensation

Something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

Compensation

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

Compensation

The act of compensating for service or loss or injury

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