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Another word for recompense

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Verb

  1. To give compensation to

    See also:

    pay

  2. To give payment to in return for goods or services rendered

    See also:

    pay

  3. To give a satisfactory return to

    See also:

    pay

Noun

  1. Something to make up for loss or damage

    See also:

    substitute

  2. Something justly deserved

    Idioms:
    See also:

    reward

  3. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered

    See also:

    pay

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for recompense

Noun
  1. See also:

    payment

Verb
  1. See also:

    pay

    repay

    pay

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • promise of life or recompense beyond the grave.

  • Refusing all honours and recompense, he prepared to return to Italy upon receiving news of the incipient revolutionary movement.

  • His real recompense was the assurance of the prosperity and the tranquillity of his country in the future, and the reconciliation of the nation and its sovereign.

  • As a recompense, he was nominated archbishop of Toulouse (May 28, 1652), but had to wait for the bulls of investiture till the 23rd of March 1654.

  • In recompense for his services, he seems to have been appointed archbishop of Milan, while his collaborator, John of Jandun, obtained from Louis of Bavaria the bishopric of Ferrara.

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