anticompensation

adjective

Opposing compensation.

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Meanings

adjectiveanticompensation (comparative more anticompensation, superlative most anticompensation)

comparative more anticompensation · superlative most anticompensation

  1. Opposing compensation.

    The air traffic controllers, however, evinced little interest in an anticompensation view. They did not want change; they wanted money.

    1988, Sylvia Noble Tesh, Hidden Arguments: Political Ideology and Disease Prevention Policy, page 109

Origin

From anti- + compensation.

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APA

anticompensation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticompensation

MLA

“anticompensation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticompensation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticompensation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticompensation.

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