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compensatory (adj.)
[compensatory 词源字典]
c. 1600, from French
compensatoire
, from Latin
compensatus
, past participle of
compensare
(see
compensate
). Psychological sense is from 1921.
[compensatory etymology, compensatory origin, 英语词源]