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compensation
Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.
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  1. Something, such as money, given or received as payment or reparation, as for a service or loss.
  2. Payment for injury, loss, or otherwise depriving a person of something he or she is entitled to. See also damages.
  3. Payment for services; esp., wages or remuneration
remuneration
Something, such as a payment, that remunerates.
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  1. Something, such as a payment, that remunerates.
  2. The act of remunerating.
  3. That which remunerates; reward; pay; recompense; compensation
recompense
Something given or done to make up for a loss, injury, etc.; compensation
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  1. Something given or done to make up for a loss, injury, etc.; compensation
  2. Amends made, as for damage or loss.
  3. Payment in return for something, such as a service.
premium
An amount paid or required, often as an installment payment, for an insurance policy.
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  1. An amount paid or required, often as an installment payment, for an insurance policy.
  2. A reward or prize, esp. one offered free or at a special low price as an added inducement to buy or do something; bonus
  3. A prize or award.
bonus
A sum of money in addition to salary that is given to a professional athlete for signing up with a team.
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  1. A sum of money in addition to salary that is given to a professional athlete for signing up with a team.
  2. (Basketball) An additional free throw awarded to a player who has been fouled when the opposing team has committed more than a specified number of fouls during a period of play.
  3. Wages paid in addition to the compensation ordinarily given or required under an employment contract. A bonus is payment for services (such as for recognition of exceptional work performance) or on consideration, and is neither gift nor gratuity.
award
Something that is awarded; prize
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  1. Something that is awarded; prize
  2. A decision, as by a judge or arbitrator
  3. An amount or other benefit granted as legally due.
compensate
To make equivalent or suitable return to; recompense; pay
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  1. To make equivalent or suitable return to; recompense; pay
  2. To make satisfactory payment or reparation to; recompense or reimburse:
  3. To serve as or provide a substitute or counterbalance.
repay
To give back, either in return or in compensation:
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  1. To give back, either in return or in compensation:
  2. To pay back.
  3. To pay back:
remunerate
To compensate for; make payment for:
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  1. To compensate for; make payment for:
  2. To pay or compensate (a person) for (work or service done, loss incurred, etc.); reward; recompense
  3. To pay (a person) a suitable equivalent in return for goods provided, services rendered, or losses incurred; recompense.
accolade
An embrace formerly used in conferring knighthood
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  1. An embrace formerly used in conferring knighthood
  2. A touch on the shoulder with the flat side of a sword, now used in conferring knighthood
  3. A special acknowledgment; an award.
award
A decision, as by a judge or arbitrator
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  1. A decision, as by a judge or arbitrator
  2. Something that is awarded; prize
  3. An amount or other benefit granted as legally due.
guerdon
A reward; recompense
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  1. A reward; recompense
honorarium
A payment as to a professional person for services on which no fee is set or legally obtainable
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  1. A payment as to a professional person for services on which no fee is set or legally obtainable
plum
An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward:
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  1. An especially desirable position, assignment, or reward:
  2. A raisin, when used in pudding or cake
  3. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Prunus of the rose family, especially the cultivated species P. domestica and P. salicina, bearing smooth-skinned, fleshy, edible fruit with a single stone.
premium
An amount paid or required, often as an installment payment, for an insurance policy.
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  1. An amount paid or required, often as an installment payment, for an insurance policy.
  2. The amount payable or paid, in one sum or periodically, for an insurance policy
  3. A prize or award.
prize
(Archaic) A contest or match
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  1. (Archaic) A contest or match
  2. Something seized by force or taken as booty, especially an enemy ship and its cargo captured at sea during wartime.
  3. Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition.
comeuppance
(Informal) Deserved punishment; retribution
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  1. (Informal) Deserved punishment; retribution
  2. A negative outcome which is justly deserved.
  3. A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just desserts:
desert
A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
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  1. A region of permanent cold that is largely or entirely devoid of life.
  2. An uncultivated region without inhabitants; wilderness
  3. A large, dry, barren region, usually having sandy or rocky soil and little or no vegetation. Water lost to evaporation and transpiration in a desert exceeds the amount of precipitation; most deserts average less than 25 cm (9.75 inches) of precipitation each year, concentrated in short local bursts. Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's surface, with the principal warm deserts located mainly along the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, where warm, rising equatorial air masses that have already lost most of their moisture descend over the subtropical regions. Cool deserts are located at higher elevations in the temperate regions, often on the lee side of a barrier mountain range where the prevailing winds drop their moisture before crossing the range.
due
A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization.
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  1. A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization.
  2. Something owed or deserved:
  3. Anything due or owed
guerdon
A reward; recompense
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  1. A reward; recompense
recompense
Something given or done to make up for a loss, injury, etc.; compensation
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  1. Something given or done to make up for a loss, injury, etc.; compensation
  2. Payment in return for something, such as a service.
  3. Amends made, as for damage or loss.
wage
The payment to an employee, usually based on hours worked or quantity of goods or services produced. The payment to an employee, usually based on hours worked or quantity of goods or services produced.
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  1. The payment to an employee, usually based on hours worked or quantity of goods or services produced. The payment to an employee, usually based on hours worked or quantity of goods or services produced.
  2. (Econ.) The share of the total product of industry that goes to labor, as distinguished from the share taken by capital
  3. A regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
bonus
A sum of money in addition to salary that is given to a professional athlete for signing up with a team.
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  1. A sum of money in addition to salary that is given to a professional athlete for signing up with a team.
  2. (Basketball) An additional free throw awarded to a player who has been fouled when the opposing team has committed more than a specified number of fouls during a period of play.
  3. Wages paid in addition to the compensation ordinarily given or required under an employment contract. A bonus is payment for services (such as for recognition of exceptional work performance) or on consideration, and is neither gift nor gratuity.
bounty
A gift or favor generously bestowed.
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  1. A gift or favor generously bestowed.
  2. Something given freely; generous gift
  3. A reward, inducement, or payment, especially one given by a government for acts deemed beneficial to the state, such as killing predatory animals, growing certain crops, starting certain industries, or enlisting for military service.
guerdon
To reward.
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  1. To reward.
compensate
To serve to balance or offset something
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  1. To serve to balance or offset something
  2. To make satisfactory payment or reparation to; recompense or reimburse:
  3. To make equivalent or suitable return to; recompense; pay
indemnify
To repay for what has been lost or damaged; compensate for a loss, etc.; reimburse
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  1. To repay for what has been lost or damaged; compensate for a loss, etc.; reimburse
  2. To protect against or keep free from loss, damage, etc.; insure
  3. To promise to make good another’s financial loss or liability resulting from a particular event or contingency. To promise to make good another’s financial loss or liability resulting from a particular event or contingency.
pay
To be profitable or worthwhile:
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  1. To be profitable or worthwhile:
  2. To discharge or settle (a debt or obligation):
  3. To give money to in return for goods or services rendered:
recompense
To award compensation to:
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  1. To award compensation to:
  2. To award compensation for; make a return for:
  3. To repay (a person, etc.); reward; compensate
remunerate
To compensate for; make payment for:
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  1. To compensate for; make payment for:
  2. To pay or compensate (a person) for (work or service done, loss incurred, etc.); reward; recompense
  3. To pay (a person) a suitable equivalent in return for goods provided, services rendered, or losses incurred; recompense.
repay
To give back, either in return or in compensation:
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  1. To give back, either in return or in compensation:
  2. To pay back.
  3. To pay back:
requite
To get revenge on (another) for wrongdoing.
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  1. To get revenge on (another) for wrongdoing.
  2. To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.
  3. (Now Rare) To give or do in return
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  • There's a hefty reward out for her, too.

  • I can neither punish him if he does wrong nor reward him if he does right.

  • And believe me, they are reaping the reward of their betrayal of the Bourbon cause.

  • Do as I say, and he'll be your reward, an eternity with him.

  • Housing is a huge industry that will reward innovative products.

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