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What does compensatory mean?

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Adjective
  1. That compensates, or serves as compensation
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The proper course for the landlord to adopt in such circumstances is to ask for a compensatory payment.
Fewer than 6 percent of patients had severe compensatory hidrosis, and the recurrence rate was 3 percent.
Finally, long-term cholesterol depletion could initiate compensatory changes in membrane lipid composition.
At the very worst, a compensatory payment for loss of profit would be achieved through the courts.
But there, the plaintiffs' families could only get compensatory damages, for losses such as the victims' lost future income.
The jury made plain that their award was for aggravated compensatory damages.

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