[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

compensatory \compen"satory\, a.
   serving for compensation; making amends. --jer. taylor.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

compensatory
     adj : compensating for syn: countervailing, offsetting, compensative
see also:
countervailing offsetting compensative 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "compensatory":
   amendatory, apologetic, ascetic, atoning, balancing, cleansing,
   compensating, compensational, compensative, counteracting,
   counteractive, counterbalancing, countervailing, expiatory,
   indemnificatory, lucrative, lustral, lustrational, lustrative,
   moneymaking, offsetting, paying, penitential, piacular, profitable,
   propitiatory, punitive, purgative, purgatorial, purifying,
   reciprocal, reclamatory, recompensing, recompensive, rectifying,
   redeeming, redemptional, redemptive, redressing, remunerative,
   reparative, reparatory, repaying, repentant, repenting,
   restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, restorative, retaliative,
   retaliatory, retributive, retributory, reversional, reversionary,
   revertible, rewardful, rewarding, righting, satisfactional,
   satisfying, squaring

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