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Noun: recompense  're-kum,pen(t)s
  1. Payment or reward (as for service rendered)
    "The volunteers received no monetary recompense for their efforts"
     
  2. The act of compensating for service, loss or injury
    "The company offered recompense to customers affected by the data breach";
    - compensation
Verb: recompense  're-kum,pen(t)s
  1. Make payment to; compensate
    "The company recompensed the workers for overtime";
    - compensate, remunerate
     
  2. Make up for loss, damage, or injury through payment or restitution
    "She was recompensed for the loss of her arm in the accident";
    - compensate, repair, indemnify

Derived forms: recompensing, recompenses, recompensed

Type of: correction, pay, payment, rectification

Encyclopedia: Recompense