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  • Lanellundefined Offline
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    Lanell
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    Corporate language refering to a persons salary, esp. if said salary is ludicrously high and/or the person in question is a celebrity or otherwise someone whose job is also his/her hobby.

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      something that everyone in the world does all the time.
      even you

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        Compensation in Shooting - Rifle Shooting. The result of barrel vibration in an upright plane.

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          The act or principle of compensating.

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            A recompense or reward for some loss or service.

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              the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

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

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                  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.

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                    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.

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                      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.

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                        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.

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                          If a detained vessel is lost by the negligence and
                          misconduct of the prize-master, compensation must be rendered, and the
                          actual captors are responsible. The principal being answerable in law
                          for the agents acts.

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                            Recompense; something equivalent; amends.

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