compensate
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To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.