uncompensated

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adjective

Not compensated; having no compensation.

Similar
unsalariedunpaid
OriginEnglish compensated ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveuncompensated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot compensated; having no compensation.
  2. not comparableNot paid for one's work.
    1 more example

    Would the site’s community of decentralized, uncompensated editors continue to govern it according to its principles of openness, transparency, and neutrality, or would a handful of highly paid NGO technocrats re-orient Wikipedia toward endorsing and promoting the ever-shifting currents of the Western elite social justice regime?

    2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2025

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot paying a salary

Similar
unsalariedunpaid
Also see
unsalaried

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishcompensated
  9. Englishuncompensated

From un- + compensated.

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Translations

Finnish kompensoimaton
  • kompensoimatonnot compensated
Greek αναποζημίωτος, αναποζημίωτος
  • αναποζημίωτος (anapozimíotos)not compensated
  • αναποζημίωτος (anapozimíotos)not paid
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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