The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word OFFSET
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result OFFSET
- A measure of compensation for not participating in film?
- Compensate for / position of unemployed film actor
- Leaving group will get compensation
- Love very loud group’s counterbalance
- Made up for being poorly prepared
- Compensation for travelling group
- Balance shown by officer class
- Make up for not shooting?
- Make up for going on TV
- Balance in the dressing room?
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The straight part
We know that "counterbalance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case counterbalance = offset.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does OFFSET mean?
OFFSET noun- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A terrace on a hillside.
- To compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).