Your friend did something horrible! She cheated on her boyfriend and feels terrible…but it is too late to change things now. What’s done is done, right? She cries to you in Spanish, “I didn’t mean to…circumstances were beyond my control!”…

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Pronounced: cohm-pehn-sah-see-óhn

Type: noun

Example: Me subieron el sueldo en compensación por las horas extras que echaba.

Translation: They raised my salary in compensation for the extra time I was putting in.

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