serving to compensate, serving to make up for or atone
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Compensatory Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Serving for compensation; making amends.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutServing for compensation; making amends.
Adjective
1. compensating for
(synonym) countervailing, offsetting, compensative
(similar) counteractive, antagonistic
