partially compensate
Frequency: 6.05.1 per million words
To remove or reduce the bad effect of something to some extent, but not completely.
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- The insurance payout will only partially compensate for the total cost of the damages.
- The small bonus was intended to partially compensate employees for their overtime work.
- Government grants are available to partially compensate farmers for their crop losses.
- While his apology was appreciated, it could only partially compensate for the hurt he had caused.
- The software update can partially compensate for the hardware's limitations.
- Planting new trees can partially compensate for the carbon emissions, but it's not a complete solution.
- Victims of the data breach were partially compensated with a year of free credit monitoring.
- A stronger currency may partially compensate for the rise in import prices.
- The court awarded a sum designed to partially compensate the plaintiff for their non-economic losses.
- Increased efficiency in one department might partially compensate for the budget cuts in another.