compensable
Able to be compensated.
Adjective
- Able to be compensated.
Synonyms: compensatable recompensable
Antonyms: incompensable irrecompensable uncompensable unrecompensable
- Entitling one to compensation.
- compensable disease
- Coalworker's pneumoconiosis is a compensable disease in various countries, and it is a preventable disease where the costs of its prevention are not shirked as externalities.
Synonyms: compensatable recompensable
Antonyms: incompensable irrecompensable uncompensable unrecompensable
Coordinate Terms: notifiable reportable
Origin
Borrowed from French compensable; by surface analysis, compens(ate) + -able.
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Noun
- That which is eligible for compensation.