Definition of "compensating" []

• Present participle of compensate. (verb)

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• "In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance."
• "In fact, Glad found that 44% of Americans use what it calls "compensating behaviors" like wrapping trash in a smaller separate bag or freezing it before throwing it away."
• "It's the idea that basically, the increment to wages that a worker requires to leave him indifferent between performing two tasks -- one which is more unpleasant than the other -- that's what you call a compensating differential."