compensable
Plural: compensables
Adjective Satellite
- for which money is paid
Adj
- Able to be compensated.
- Entitling one to compensation.
Noun
- That which is eligible for compensation.
Examples
- Coalworker's pneumoconiosis is a compensable disease in various countries, and it is a preventable disease where the costs of its prevention are not shirked as externalities.
- compensable disease
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French compensable; by surface analysis, compens(ate) + -able.
Synonyms
paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary, ;, compensatable, recompensable
Antonyms
incompensable, irrecompensable, uncompensable, unrecompensable
Scrabble Score: 19
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