When you were not fairly compensated and you have the opportunity to confiscate so you don't feel slighted in an exchange.
Person one: how did the deal go?
Person two: dude tried to short me on what he owed me but I was compensated fairly. Lol
Hey where did you get that?
I compenskate it from the store. Their prices are ridiculous.
Person two: dude tried to short me on what he owed me but I was compensated fairly. Lol
Hey where did you get that?
I compenskate it from the store. Their prices are ridiculous.
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Get the compenskate mug.giving an item,object, or idea of value to someone or something in exchange for something that is of equal value, or vice versa. Though similar to equivalent exchange, Equal compensation is more economic then scientific or alchemical.
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Mascaping your pubic hair into a penis larger than his own
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Get the Itchy Compensation mug.The greatest bunch of hokey ever conceived as a supposedly acceptable/adequate alternative to monetary payment or actual physical labor to recompense someone for goods/services that he's provided. Even if it was agreed beforehand that the person's assistance would be performed at no cost, too many moochers take advantage of this practice by knowingly/grossly underestimating the amount of time/effort/resources that would actually be required to perform the task, and so the prospective provider is deceived into thinking that the requested task is far less arduous/involved than is turns out to be; he would likely never have agreed to provide his services for free if he'd known the true size/scope of the requested task.
Disgruntled teenager: That skinflint connivin' ol' fart Mr. Jones snookered my buddies and me into "just loading a discarded pile of lightweight foam insulation into the dumpster" for him… not only did he neglect to mention that said insulation was GLUED ONTO PANELS OF SHEETROCK which made them about ten times as heavy, but then afterwards he just gave us VERBAL compensation ---"Great job, fellas... appreciate it! Thanks! I'm really grateful for your volunteering to help out an old weak-muscled geezer like me!" --- instead of slipping us each a ten-spot, the way any decent person would do!
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Person 2: Yeah, that's what we call the compensator
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Get the The Compensator mug.A theoretical hypothesis proposing that the universe possesses inherent mechanisms to prevent paradoxes when the known laws of physics appear to be violated at macroscopic scales. According to this speculative principle, if faster-than-light travel became possible—seemingly violating relativity and enabling causal paradoxes—some undiscovered physical mechanism would automatically activate to prevent grandfather paradoxes from actually occurring. Similarly, if energy were not conserved in some process, or if negative entropy emerged spontaneously, the universe would compensate through some other channel to maintain overall consistency. The General Law suggests that physics is not a collection of independent rules but a self-consistent system that protects its own coherence—if you punch a hole in one law, another law quietly patches it before paradox can emerge. It's the cosmological equivalent of "the universe bats last," applied to the largest scales of reality.
Example: "The physicist speculated that if FTL travel ever became real, the General Law of Physical Compensation would ensure you could never actually kill your own grandfather—not because relativity forbids it, but because the universe has backstop mechanisms we haven't discovered yet."
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Get the General Law of Physical Compensation mug.The microscopic complement to the General Law, proposing that quantum-scale apparent violations of physical law are similarly compensated by mechanisms operating at the smallest scales of reality. Where the General Law addresses macroscopic paradoxes like FTL travel or perpetual motion, the Special Law concerns itself with quantum events that might seem to violate conservation laws, causality, or temporal order. It suggests that for every quantum fluctuation that appears to borrow energy from nowhere, for every apparent retrocausal influence, for every momentary violation of expected regularity, there exists an invisible compensatory mechanism that restores ultimate consistency—often too quickly or too subtly to be detected. The Special Law is what keeps the quantum foam from boiling over into macroscopic paradox, the universe's microscopic immune system against its own wildest possibilities.
Example: "The experiment seemed to show energy appearing from nowhere, but the Special Law of Physical Compensation predicts some undetected balancing mechanism—perhaps energy borrowed from the future, returned before anyone could measure the theft."
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