Difference between Compensate and Recompense

COMPENSATE vs RECOMPENSE: NOUN

An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
Payment in return for something, such as a service.
Amends made, as for damage or loss.
Payment or reward (as for service rendered)
That which compensates for an injury.
The act of compensating for service or loss or injury

Adjust or make up for
Do or give something to somebody in return
Make payment to; compensate
Make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
Make reparations or amends for
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
To adjust or adapt to a change; often a negative, (harmful, or depriving) or undesired one.
Adjust for
Make amends for; pay compensation for

To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for.
To stabilize the purchasing power of (a monetary unit) by changing the gold content in order to counterbalance price variations.
To make satisfactory payment or reparation to; recompense or reimburse.
To offset; counterbalance.
To serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance.

To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably.

To award compensation to.
To award compensation for; make a return for.
To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

To give a substitute of equal value to; give an equivalent to; recompense: as, to compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses.
To make up for; counterbalance; make amends for.
In mech., to construct so as to effect compensation for the results of variations of temperature. See compensation, 4.
Synonyms Recompense, Remunerate, etc. (see indemnify), reward.
To supply or serve as an equivalent; make amends; atone: followed by for: as, what can compensate for the loss of honor?
Make amends for
Pay compensation for
Make payment to
Compensate

To make a return to; give or render an equivalent to, as for services or loss; compensate: with a person as object.
To return an equivalent for; pay for; reward; requite.
To pay or give as an equivalent; pay back.
To make amends for by some equivalent; make compensation for; pay some forfeit for.
To serve as an equivalent or recompense for.
Synonyms and Remunerate, Reimburse, etc. (see indemnify), repay.
To make amends or return.
Compensate
Make payment to
Pay compensation for
Make amends for

Recoup, Offset, Make up, Even up, Even out, Even off, Pay off, Right, Correct, Indemnify, Counterbalance, Remunerate, Pay, Redress, Recompense

Reimbursement, Payment, Honorarium, Pay, Payoff, Remuneration, Remedy, Reward, Retribution, Compensating, Redress, Indemnify, Remunerate, Compensation, Compensate

Compensation, Counteract, Mitigate, Compensations, Reimburse, Offset, Make up, Pay off, Right, Correct, Indemnify, Remunerate, Pay, Redress, Recompense

Prize, Reimbursement, Payment, Honorarium, Pay, Payoff, Remuneration, Remedy, Reward, Retribution, Compensating, Redress, Indemnify, Remunerate, Compensation

North Carolina set to compensate forced sterilization victims.
The Hebrews added an extra month to compensate.
Its perusal will amply compensate the intelligent reader.
Is because we can only compensate so much.
Recruit, supervise, retain, evaluate and compensate the manager.
Prepayment penalties compensate lenders for the lost interest.
CBD to compensate households for higher commuting costs.
Compensate obligees when damage, although an eidetic memory?
Each of the receiving peers sees that the said terminal does not compensate, and there are a total of two terminals that do compensate.
No amount of computing power can compensate for brainless testing, but lots of brainpower can compensate for a missing or unavailable computer.

So what yet causes you to deny the Recompense?
Mauries, qui recompense chaque annee un ehldiant en journalisme.
Lord in his due time will fully recompense them.
He demands that the Mexican government will recompense us.
Any healthy and sincere provisions is decent recompense sex.
Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.
Illustration: HIS UNSELFISH LOVE FOUND A MELANCHOLY RECOMPENSE.
Vengeance belongeth unto me, recompense, saith the Lord.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
That recompense, voted a few months previously, was the third national recompense accorded to French scientists since the beginning of the century.