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# recompense

«recompense» in Mova's school dictionary: **money or something else given to make up for harm, loss…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (recompense — uncountable); verb (recompense, recompenses, recompensed, recompensing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Recompense is money or something else given to make up for harm, loss or trouble someone has suffered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#m1)

2) (formal) Recompense can also be a reward for work or effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#m2)

3) (formal) To recompense someone is to pay or reward them for loss, work or trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

It is a stiff, formal word used in letters, law and exam texts; in everyday speech people say "compensation", "payback" or "pay". In the Bible some older translations use "recompense" to mean reward or punishment for what someone has done. Phrases: "in recompense for", "as recompense", "without recompense".

### examples

- (formal) The airline offered a free ticket as recompense for the lost luggage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x1)
- (formal) He worked for years without recompense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x2)
- (formal) The company recompensed the families for the damage to their homes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x3)
- In recompense for breaking the window, Tom washed the neighbour's car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x4)
- (Bible) The old Bible says that God will give each person recompense for their deeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x5)
- (formal) The volunteers asked for no recompense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x6)
- The King recompensed them both with silver and gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/#x7)

### note

Formal and uncountable as a noun. Everyday words with similar meaning: compensation, payment, reward, making up for. Do not confuse with "recompose" or "repay"; recompense is usually for loss or work, while "repay" means to pay back money you borrowed.

### In the corpora

- [The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.680/)
- [Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.684/)
- [For the LORD hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.715/)
- [Shall evil be recompensed for good?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.527/)
- [And it is like people, like priest; and I will punish him for his ways, and will recompense him his doings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.48/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recompense» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recompense/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.