Crossword clues for reward
reward
- Word on a lost-dog poster, often
- Wanted poster amount
- Sugar cube or dog biscuit, perhaps
- Word on a lost-dog poster
- Word in a lost-and-found ad
- Word in a "lost" ad
- Wanted-poster offer
- Wanted-poster information
- Wanted-posted word
- Wanted poster promise
- Wanted poster offer
- Take care of, in a way
- Salary e.g
- Money offered for services
- Money given for locating a lost pet, for example
- Money for good deed
- Monetary amount on a "Wanted" poster
- Intriguing poster heading
- Incentive in a "lost" ad
- Incentive for fingering a felon
- Headline on a classic western poster
- Heading on a lost-dog poster
- Handout for good behavior
- Frequent flier mileage trade-in
- First word on a "lost dog" poster
- Depeche Mode "Some Great ___"
- Common poster headline
- Bounty hunter's payoff
- "Wanted" poster offer
- "Wanted" poster figure
- "Lost" ad word
- "Lost dog" poster offer
- Wanted-poster word
- Poster announcement
- "Wanted" poster information
- First word on a "lost dog" sign
- Poster heading
- Police offer
- Reason to rat
- Wanted poster word
- Bounty hunter's incentive
- Something bad to have on one's head
- Offer on a "Wanted" poster
- A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing
- Payment made in return for a service rendered
- An act performed to strengthen approved behavior
- The offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property
- Benefit resulting from some event or action
- Deserts
- Recompense
- Compensation
- Word on a P.O. wall
- Finder's fee
- Incentive of sorts
- Cartoonist, maybe, about to get prize
- Socialist keeps fighting for compensation
- Rejected 22 10 for one prize
- Profit, return
- Payment for services rendered
- Just deserts
- Honour about to go to hospital division
- Word on a wanted poster
- Saskatchewan address
- Word on a lost-pet poster
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reward \Re*ward"\, n. [See Reward, v., and cf. Regard, n.]
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Regard; respect; consideration. [Obs.]
Take reward of thine own value.
--Chaucer. -
That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward.
--Milton.Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill.
--Hooker. -
Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward.
--Eccl. ix. 5. -
(Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
--Burrill.Syn: Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.
Reward \Re*ward"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rewarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rewarding.] [OF. rewarder, another form of regarder, of German origin. The original sense is, to look at, regard, hence, to regard as worthy, give a reward to. See Ward, Regard.] To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward,
Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord.
--Piers
Plowman.
Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded
thee evil.
--1 Sam. xxiv.
17.
I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will
reward them that hate me.
--Deut. xxxii.
41.
God rewards those that have made use of the single
talent.
--Hammond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "a regarding, heeding, observation," from Anglo-French and Old North French reward, back-formation from rewarder (see reward (v.)). Meaning "repayment for some service" is from late 14c. Sense of "sum of money in exchange for capture" is from 1590s.
c.1300 "to grant, bestow;" early 14c. "to give as compensation," from Old North French rewarder "to regard, reward" (Old French regarder) "take notice of, regard, watch over," from re-, intensive prefix (see re-), + warder "look, heed, watch," from Germanic (see warder). Originally any form of requital. A doublet of regard. Related: Rewarded; rewarding.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Something of value given in return for an act. 2 A prize promised for a certain deed or catch 3 The result of an action, whether good or bad. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (label en obsolete transitive) To give (something) as a reward. 2 (label en transitive) To give a reward to or for. 3 (label en transitive) To recompense.
WordNet
n. a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward" [syn: wages, payoff]
payment made in return for a service rendered
an act performed to strengthen approved behavior [syn: reinforcement]
the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property
benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" [syn: advantage] [ant: penalty]
v. bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageus action" [syn: honor, honour] [ant: dishonor]
strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's reinforce good behavior" [syn: reinforce]
act or give recompensation in recognition of someone's behavior or actions [syn: repay, pay back]
Wikipedia
A reward may refer to:
Reward, also known as Williams Point Farm, is a historic home located at Shelltown, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story, gable-front brick dwelling with a steep gable roof with two diamond-shaped chimney stacks piercing the east slope of the roof. The main block is constructed of whitewashed brick laid in Flemish bond.
Reward was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Usage examples of "reward".
At her house I made the acquaintance of several gamblers, and of three or four frauleins who, without any dread of the Commissaries of Chastity, were devoted to the worship of Venus, and were so kindly disposed that they were not afraid of lowering their nobility by accepting some reward for their kindness--a circumstance which proved to me that the Commissaries were in the habit of troubling only the girls who did not frequent good houses.
Raby had that touch of generosity in her own character that never permitted her to see merit without openly acknowledging, and endeavouring to reward it.
I was ready to call it quits and give up on the reward and just spend the next few years enjoying a little pre-connubial bliss, she told me that I was all through going to Acme Fertilizer Company and would now be making my pick-ups at the Prime Fish Hatcheries.
Parents who are sensitive to this unstated plea and who, through acts of love, concern, restraint, and respect, demonstrate repeatedly It Is You We Care About will find the years of adolescence can produce rewards and surprises far beyond their expectations.
If the article is advertised, and a reward sufficiently in excess of what he paid for it is offered, the Fence frequently returns it to its rightful owner, upon condition that no questions shall be asked, and claims the reward.
But the rising sedition was appeased by the authority and eloquence of the general: and he represented to the assembled troops the obligation of justice, the importance of discipline, the rewards of piety and virtue, and the unpardonable guilt of murder, which, in his apprehension, was aggravated rather than excused by the vice of intoxication.
I caret caret Hffcaret For three days Alec and Seregil kept their cold vigil and at last their patience was rewarded.
The significance of his tract has been changed by the death of Queen Anne and by his interest in presenting himselfas amartyr seeking his reward from his King and party.
Our patience was rewarded on the fifth night when Capers hooked a small amberjack and brought it on board with a shout.
I felt that the way she was talking would give her a liking for me, and I was satisfied that the man who can give birth to amorous desires is easily called upon to gratify them it was the reward I was ardently longing for, and I dared to hope it would be mine, although I could see it only looming in the distance.
But supposing a committee of arboriculturists, in these days of stamping out all the joyous old pantheistic customs, were to sit in open-air conclave and adjudge the reward of a caressing parasite to the sturdiest old trunk in the Australian bush, this ancient gum-tree would have been entwined for its remaining decades--years are of little account in the life of such a tree--by the very Abishag of a creeper.
He was careful not to try to refute the irrefutable, arguing instead that religion, faith, will always be more rewarding, more emotionally satisfying, more morally uplifting than philosophy, and that insofar as Christians led moral and productive lives the religion justified itself.
Major Stokes, pleased with their work, had produced three jars of arrack as a reward, and the jugs were being passed from hand to hand.
His rite accomplished, the traveler receives the reward of his liberation: the little stone, dry and smooth as an asphodel, that he picks up on the cliff.
Finally, the prince was rewarded as the tent flap was pulled aside and Asteria stepped into the room, looking for all the world like Artemis or golden Aphrodite, her small lyre under one arm, her eyes cast demurely down to her feet, a shy smile on her face.