Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of remunerating.
  • noun Something, such as a payment, that remunerates.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of remunerating, or paying for services, loss, or sacrifices.
  • noun What is given to remunerate; the equivalent given for services, loss, or sufferings.
  • noun Synonyms Repayment, indemnification.
  • noun Reward, recompense, compensation, payment. See indemnify.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of remunerating.
  • noun That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
  • noun A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
  • noun A recompense for a loss; compensation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun something that remunerates
  • noun the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses

Etymologies

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From Latin remuneratio.

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Examples

  • From 2012, a "reference salary" of £1.2 million will be used to calculate his long-term remuneration and pension.

    New Lloyds Chief Pockets $15.5 Million Marietta Cauchi 2011

  • Former Chief Executive Tony Hayward , former head of Exploration and Production Andy Inglis and current Chief Executive Robert Dudley will receive no cash bonus for 2010 and no shares under the long-term remuneration plan running from 2008 to 2010, BP said in its annual report to shareholders.

    BP Spill Chiefs Miss Out on Bonuses James Herron 2011

  • On top of this, and to trigger his long-term remuneration and pension, the new CEO starts off with £4.46 million worth of shares, 420% of his salary, for 2011.

    New Lloyds Chief Pockets $15.5 Million Marietta Cauchi 2011

  • August 7 then appears and blocks their way, saying that his remuneration is to talk about the secrets behind magic tricks (sounds like a lame and easy payment), but he says its torture for a magician like him to do that but he can use real magic in return.

    Darker than Black season 2 – ep 02 « Undercover 2009

  • It was the inevitable result of a system that put short-term remuneration before the real long-term capital needs of the banks.

    Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010

  • My deadly that I'd do if there was no remuneration is lust.

    Don't Tempt Me... 2007

  • Associated Press The bank announced in a statement that "to return to a more serene debate on the long-term remuneration of executives, top management has pledged not to exercise those stock option rights while SocGen receives help from the state."

    SocGen, Amid Furor, Revises Options Plan 2009

  • As his expenses mounted, Pont changed his request for remuneration from a single award to an annuity in honor of his discoveries.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • It does, however, insist that the contribution to the creative effort, whether intellectual or remuneration, is recognised in the form of two, unique, persistent, identifiers that record every transaction in the contributions chain.

    Copyright in a digital world 2005

  • Perhaps that remuneration is not excessive when election expenses are considered.

    The Handwriting On Parliament's Wall 1938

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  • Everybody I have ever met (and I know some educated people) has looked at me strangely whenever I have said this word.

    December 3, 2006

  • this opposition represented fear for the future survival of the dominant fee-for- service remuneration.

    September 14, 2010