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Another word for recompense

recompense Synonyms

recompense

n.

return, repayment, reward; see payment 1.

recompense Synonyms

recompense

v.

compensate, remunerate, repay; see pay 1, repay 1. See syn. study at pay.

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Another word for recompense

verb

To give compensation to:
compensate, indemnify, pay, redress, reimburse, remunerate, repay, requite. See pay
To give payment to in return for goods or services rendered:
compensate, pay, remunerate. See pay
To give a satisfactory return to:
compensate, indemnify, pay, remunerate, repay, requite, reward. See pay

noun

Something to make up for loss or damage:
amends, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, satisfaction, setoff. See substitute
Something justly deserved:
comeuppance, desert² (often used in plural), due, guerdon, reward, wage (often used in plural). (Informal) lump¹ (used in plural). Idioms: what is coming to one, what one has coming. See reward
Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered:
compensation, consideration, payment, remuneration. See pay

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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 the opinion of the people he was now regarded as the embodiment of all legal virtue; his health was toasted at the dinners of the Whigs amid rounds of applause, and, in recompense for the loss of his seat in parliament, he was returned by Lord Clive for his pocket-borough of Bishop's Castle, in Shropshire, in January 1770.

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