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What's the difference between "compensate" and "offset", if any?
For example, are they interchangeable in such sentence: she claimed to compensate the injury of her car?
Can you give some more examples? Thanks in advance!
29 lut 2016 06:55
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Hello!
Both terms in this case are to do with the payment of money.
Perhaps to understand the meaning of compensate your sentence could be revised to:
"She placed a claim with the insurance company. The insurance company compensated her for the damage to her car."
(Note: Cars are not injured, they are damaged.)
In my example, she was given money by the insurance company to repair her car. This money is "compensation".
"offset" is a little more difficult to explain, but I will try.
If the damage to the car costs $1000, but the insurance company would only give her $800 to repair it, it might be said that because she had to pay the extra $200 to get the car repaired, the insurance company had only offset the total amount.
So your sentence might then read:
"She placed a claim with the insurance company for $1000, but the company would only pay $800. The $800 offset the cost to repair her car, but she still had to pay $200 to have the car repaired".
I am sorry that this is complicated, but I hope it helps.
29 lutego 2016
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angielski, rosyjski, hiszpański
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