COMPENSATING Antonyms

• the act of deducting from an employee's salary

• income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer

• the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control

• loss due to not showing up

• act of failing to meet a financial obligation

• loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid

• an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified

• fail to pay up

• take away possessions from someone

• keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

• take away

• something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty

• a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something

• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

• surrendered as a penalty

• lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime

• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

• fail to win

• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal

• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of

• allow to go out of sight or mind

• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit

• fail to get or obtain

• fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

• withdraw, as from reality

• be set at a disadvantage

• impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on

• To defraud someone by giving them less change than they should be given after a transaction.

• (by extension) To deprive someone of something for which they paid.

• To make disadvantaged by design.

• To cause a short circuit in (something).

• Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.

• To shortchange.

• To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.

• To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.

• To shorten.

• pay too little