補償する
解説 Definition
compensating は compensate（補償する、埋め合わせる）の現在分詞・動名詞です。損失や不利益に対して金銭や別の方法で埋め合わせていることを表します。
The present participle and gerund of compensate, meaning providing money, benefits, or another form of repayment to make up for a loss, disadvantage, injury, or extra work. It describes the process of restoring fairness or balance for an affected person or group.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
compensate「損失を補償する」の語末 e を落として -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞です。compensating customers for the delay のように「人＋for＋損害・理由」の型で、遅延や残業による不利益を金銭などで釣り合わせている場面を思い浮かべましょう。
Begin with compensate and drop its final silent e before adding -ing: compensating. The central image is a balance scale being restored after one side has suffered a loss or carried an extra burden. Remember the common pattern compensating someone for something, as in compensating customers for a delay or workers for extra hours. The compensation may be money, benefits, replacement service, or another remedy. Unlike merely paying someone, compensating implies that a loss, inconvenience, injury, or additional effort created an imbalance that is now being corrected.
例文
The company is compensating customers for the delay.
その会社は遅延について顧客に補償しています。
They are compensating the workers for the extra hours.
彼らは残業時間について労働者に補償しています。
The new policy focuses on compensating families affected by the error.
新しい方針は、その誤りの影響を受けた家庭への補償に重点を置いています。
compensating の類義語・関連語
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compensating の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の接頭辞com-（一緒に）＋語根pendere（重さを測る）に由来。本来は「双方の重みを秤にかけて釣り合わせる」意味で、ここから不足分を補填して均衡させる「補償する」に繋がりました。同語根にexpend（支出する）やpension（年金）があります。
Compensating is the -ing form of compensate, with the final silent e removed before the suffix is added. Compensate comes from Latin compensare, built from com-, “together,” and pensare, “to weigh” or “balance,” a frequentative form related to pendere. Its underlying image is weighing one thing against another to restore balance. That physical image developed into the modern idea of making up for loss or disadvantage through money or another benefit. Pension and expend share related Latin weight or payment history.
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