compensation : Idioms & Phrases
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Compensated balance
- a kind of balance wheel for a timepiece. The rim is usually made of two different expansibility under changes of temperature, so arranged as to counteract each other and preserve uniformity of movement.
Webster 1913
Compensation balance
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Webster 1913
Compensation pendulum
- . See
Pendulum .
Webster 1913
unemployment compensation
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noun payment by a United States agency to unemployed people
WordNet
workmen's compensation
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noun compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment
