compensatory
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Relating to strategies that work around a deficit rather than restoring the lost function itself.
We took a compensatory approach, teaching her to use a checklist to offset her memory difficulties.
Law adjective
Intended to make good a loss rather than to punish the wrongdoer.
The jury awarded compensatory damages for the medical bills and the lost wages.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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