However, Your Highness, we would not think of crossing your soil without your permission, nor of removing the Grail from your borders without suitable compensation.
(n) a minimum credit balance that a bank may require a borrower to keep on deposit as a condition for granting a loan; a common requirement for establishing a line of credit at a bank, Syn. offsetting balance, Example:the compensating balance increases the effective interest rate to the bank since the net amount loaned is reduced but the interest paid is unchanged