What does complements mean?

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What does complements mean?

Answer 1

goes with, as in colors matching, furniture arrangement, etc.

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Answer 2

If you mean something like "complements of the house", then it is something that is presented to you without charge.  Usually it is given without your asking.  An example would be when you are dining at a fine restaurant and the waiter brings you a glass of wine that you have not requested.  The wine is placed before you and the waiter says "Complements of the house."  The restaurant is showing you that your patronage is appreciated.

In the southern United States "Lagniappe" means a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase or more broadly something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure; a bonus. The word is used in Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, Charleston,SC, gulf coast of Mississippi, the gulf coast of Alabama, and extreme south-eastern Texas. It was also once in common usage by antiquarian booksellers.

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Answer 3

Complement is a noun and a verb meaning to complete or supplement something: A complement of courses. The tie complements his suit.

Compliment is a noun or a verb that means praise or an expression of courtesy: She was flattered by the compliment. The drinks were complimentary (a courtesy).

Answer 4

A complement is:

something that fills up,completes or makes perfect

The quantity or number required to make a thing complete

one or two mutually completing parts

an interval in music required to with a given interval to complete the octave

to compliment,exchange formal courtesies