Providing compensation; making up for a deficiency or loss.
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com·pen·sa·to·ry kəm-'pen(t)-sə-.tōr-ē, -.tȯr- adj making up for a loss esp serving as psychic or physiological compensation <\compensatory enlargement of the heart> <to overcome this feeling of inferiority by developing such \compensatory mechanisms as intelligent aggression or shrewdness (Edward Sapir)>
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com·pen·sa·to·ry (kəm-penґsə-tor″e) making good a defect or loss; restoring a lost balance.Medical dictionary. 2011.