Compensation vs. Claim — What's the Difference?

The act of compensating or the state of being compensated.

State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.

Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)

(Biology) The increase in size or activity of one part of an organism or organ that makes up for the loss or dysfunction of another.

Cause the loss of (someone's life)

(Psychology) The act of consciously or unconsciously changing one's behavior to offset a real or imagined deficiency, as in personality or physical ability.

An assertion that something is true

The act or principle of compensating.

A demand or request for something considered one's due

Something which is regarded as an equivalent; something which compensates for loss.

To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due

(finance) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount.

To take in a violent manner as if by right

A recompense or reward for service.

To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain

(real estate) An equivalent stipulated for in contracts for the sale of real estate, in which it is customary to provide that errors in description, etc., shall not avoid, but shall be the subject of compensation.

To deserve or call for; require

The relationship between air temperature outside a building and a calculated target temperature for provision of air or water to contained rooms or spaces for the purpose of efficient heating. In building control systems, the compensation curve is defined to a compensator for this purpose.

A demand for something as rightful or due.

(neuroscience) The ability of one part of the brain to overfunction in order to take over the function of a damaged part (e.g. following a stroke).

A basis for demanding something; a title or right.

The act or principle of compensating.

Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which compensates for loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense.

A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.

The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.

The sum of money demanded.

Something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

A demand of ownership made for something.

The act of compensating for service or loss or injury

The thing claimed.

The right or ground of demanding.

A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

To demand ownership of.

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

(obsolete) To proclaim.

(archaic) To call or name.

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

To proclaim.

To call or name.

To assert; to maintain.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

A loud call.

An assertion of a right (as to money or property);

An assertion that something is true or factual;

Demand for something as rightful or due;

An informal right to something;

An established or recognized right;

A demand especially in the phrase

Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;

Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;

Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;

Lay claim to; as of an idea;

Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;