compensation : Idioms & Phrases


Compensated balance

  • a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Webster 1913

Compensation balance

  • or
Webster 1913

Compensation pendulum

  • . See Pendulum.
Webster 1913

unemployment compensation

  • noun payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
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workmen's compensation

  • noun compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment
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