compensable

1. 1.

   for which money is paid

   “a paying job”

   “remunerative work”

   “salaried employment”

   “stipendiary services”

   Synonymspayingremunerativesalariedstipendiary

   Similarpaid

Questions about compensable

What does compensable mean?

compensable means "for which money is paid".

How many syllables are in compensable?

compensable has 4 syllables: com-pen-sa-ble. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɛnsəbəl/.

What is another word for compensable?

Close synonyms include paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compensable a common word?

compensable is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.