How to spell compensation

hear itcom·pen·sa·tion/,kɑmpən'seɪʃən/nounSchwa and roots

What it means: Something given as payment for a service or loss.

In a sentence: The teacher gave extra stickers as compensation for helping clean up the classroom.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as compansation or compansation.

Same family: compensate, compensated, compensating, compensatory, reimbursement. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Compensation” comes from Latin *compensare*, meaning “to weigh together” or “to balance one thing against another,” which is why it often refers to money or benefits that balance out a loss or work done.

Patterns it uses: -tion, -sion or -cian?

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