Usage examples "compensation":
- I'd rather not know when I was to be happy; it would spoil the pleasure; and wouldn't be any compensation when it was the other way." - "Their Silver Wedding Journey", William Dean Howells.
- " Well," Philip said, " I lost my heart then, and kept the handkerchief as a compensation. - "Salome", Emma Marshall.
- I will undertake to do all you ask of me for a proper compensation, say one hundred and fifty a day for two days. - "The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton", Wardon Allan Curtis.