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The act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
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remuneration
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Word definitions for remuneration in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN package ▪ We are offering an attractive remuneration package including a company car and other larger company benefits. ▪ A realistic salary established prior to the sale may establish a proper benchmark for the director's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Remuneration 1. is the compensation that one receives in exchange for the work or services performed.; 2. Not to be confused with giving (away), or donating, or the act of providing to. A number of complementary benefits , however, are increasingly popular ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remuneration \Re*mu`ner*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [L. remuneratio: cf. F. r['e]mun['e]ration.] The act of remunerating. That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings. --Shak. Syn: Reward; recompense; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Middle French remuneration and directly from Latin remunerationem (nominative remuneratio ) "a repaying, recompense," noun of action from past participle stem of remunerari "to pay, reward," from re- "back" (see re- ) + munerari "to give," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage , pay , earnings , salary ] the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses; "adequate remuneration ...
Usage examples of remuneration.
But when she saw that I could talk and smile as usual, she was unsparing in her attempts to coax from me a pledge that I would never again peril life or limb to gratify my curiosity regarding the very few pursuits in which, for the highest remuneration, Martialists can be induced to incur the probability of injury and the chance of that death they so abjectly dread.
The grateful manifestations which we have received from this class of sufferers have afforded us one of the greatest pleasures of our lives, and have alone been a rich remuneration for the diligent study and arduous labors devoted to the investigation of these diseases and to the perfecting of our peculiar and successful methods of treating them.
Neither the editors of the those publications, nor the officers of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, or of any of its departments, receive salaries or other remuneration.
I entirely agree with you, that the abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons, and without any remuneration to the Church, was a most scandalous and Jacobinical measure.
The price which you pay for coal in the market is the remuneration given to these labors of digging and transportation.
The Wars Trials declared that as remuneration for the wrongs of the air-breathers against his race, Grandfather received every Pisces financial dealing, patent, property and corporation.
To engage in such an undertaking, Burns required small persuasion, and while Thomson asked for strains delicate and polished, the poet characteristically stipulated that his contributions were to be without remuneration, and the language seasoned with a sprinkling of the Scottish dialect.
Damien is found guilty of this crime and is sentenced to death, his appeals will continue, and believe the potential damage far outweighs any monetary remuneration he might receive.
To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine—such things were remuneration in full for his ardors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative.
On what principle the remuneration of our parish clergymen was settled when the original settlement was made, no deepest, keenest, lover of middle-aged ecclesiastical black-letter learning can, I take it, now say.
I added without prejudice that Colonel Hamilton was now employed as chairman of the board of Trumper's, a position from which he certainly derived some remuneration.
The battle for Madison, alone, would require remuneration in excess of the entire planetary economic output for the past six months.
But in general, if the country contains a sufficient number of persons qualified to provide education under government auspices, the same persons would be able and willing to give an equally good education on the voluntary principle, under the assurance of remuneration afforded by a law rendering education compulsory, combined with State aid to those unable to defray the expense.