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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various combined substances, such as mortar or plaster, formed by mixing ingredients.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as compost, 4.
  2. n. Same as composition, 5.
  3. n. A mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used for ornaments on walls and cornices instead of plaster of Paris: called specifically carvers' compo.
  4. n. The sum or dividend paid in composition of a bankrupt's debts; also, the portion of the monthly wages paid to a ship's company.

Wiktionary

  1. abbr. composition
  2. abbr. competition
  3. abbr. compensation

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A mortar made of sand and cement.
  2. n. A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.
  3. n. A composition for billiard balls.
  4. n. A preparation of which printer's rollers are made.
  5. n. A preparation used in currying leather.
  6. n. Composition paid by a debtor.

Etymologies

  1. Short for composition. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby Compensation. Usually understood to mean Workers' Compensation, i.e. payments to a person who sustained a significant injury in the workplace. Mar 25, 2010

  • knitandpurl "No money came in. No compo. Sam didn't go on the dole."
    Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 18 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition Mar 25, 2010

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