remuneratev.
/rᵻˈmjuːnəreɪt/, U.S. /rəˈmjunəˌreɪt/, /riˈmjunəˌreɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To repay or reward (a service, a kindness, etc.); (now usually) to give payment for (a service rendered or work done).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] > specifically a service or good deed
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reacquite1534
gratulate1612
1523 T. Cromwell Let. 17 Aug. in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 313 Entending to remembre and also remunerate the olde acquayntaunces.
1580 A. Saker Narbonus i. 75 But what amendes shall I make? or what reward shall I render? what raunsome shall I paye? or how remunerate his demeanour?
1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B 3 I will remunerate your kindnesse with most ample recompence.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. Bv She no doubt, with royall fauour will remunerate The least of your desertes.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 13 That was to teach righteousnesse, but this to remunerate it.
1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. ii. ix. 131 Compensative Honour..to remunerate integrity.
1710 W. Cockburn Ess. Reign Anne ii. 135 He sets a high value upon Merit, which he not only admires, but remunerates, always advancing Men of Valor.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon IV. viii. 172 You remunerated injuries with benefits.
1804 H. Siddons in F. W. Blagdon Flowers of Lit. (1805) 100 It is this instructs the pious youth to remunerate parents' kindness, when second childhood makes the father again depend for life on the being to whom he has given it.
1850 A. Nicholson Lights & Shades of Ireland viii. 99 Her haughty taskmasters remunerate her labour by rags for covering, and potatoes for eating.
1921 Columbia Law Rev. 21 614 Founders' shares..are sometimes reserved in order to remunerate services rendered after the incorporation of the company.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. ii. xiv. 227 Other methods of remunerating labour include operation of profit-sharing schemes and providing benefits in kind i.e. non-financial rewards such as a company car and free lunch.
b. transitive. Of a thing: to provide recompense or reward for (a labour, service, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for > of things
remunerate1735
1735 J. Cheshire Treat. Rheumatism (new ed.) Pref. p. xxxii A State where good Actions must..remunerate themselves.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) ix. 188 There are few plants that remunerate so largely the labours of the husbandman.
1997 H. D. Pruijt Job Design & Technol. iv. 76 The pay system supports this, since it remunerates knowledge rather than performance.
2.
a. transitive. To reward (a person); (now usually) to pay (a person) for services rendered or work done.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)]
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guerdonize1594
munerate1595
regratulate1626
reprise1677
sugar-plum1788
ameed1807
recompensate1841
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)]
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shipec1275
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wage1393
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remunerate1542
satisfy1565
gratify1590
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth Pref. sig. A.iij After this transytory lyfe remunerate you with celestyal ioy and eternall glorye.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Qiii Certen it is, as there is a God, that will reward his Children, so there is a Deuill that will remunerat his Seruaunts.
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 20 This onely is required, that you remunerate with coine the authours of your intent, bolstring vp with your bags their impouerishing braueries.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxii. 343 Should Succession fault in not remunerating thee With such a Monument.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (1623) i. i. 395 Is she not then beholding to the man..? Yes, and will Nobly him remunerate.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 299 The King remunerated them both, the former with an addition of honour, the later with an accession of Estate.
1700 G. Booth tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Libr. xi. i. 219 He told them that if they broke in upon the Grecians, and drove them out of the Passages, he would remunerate them with large Rewards.
1779 R. Shepherd Refl. Doctr. Materialism iii. 48 His Majesty will without doubt amply remunerate him for making it public.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xiv. 124 The great Hubbard had acted legitimate drama for twenty nights, and failed to remunerate anybody but himself.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 526 Dryden..received thirteen hundred pounds for his translation of all the works of Virgil, and was thought to have been splendidly remunerated.
1927 Daily Tel. 3 May 3 In the opinion of the Postmaster-General the paperkeepers were amply remunerated at the present rates.
1959 Mariner's Mirror 45 305 One of the recognized ways..of remunerating the medieval mariner was the method of ‘portade’.
1992 S. Tharoor Show Business (1995) i. 7 Wage payers in movieland were notoriously less finicky about the tax laws than the paisa-pinching accountants who remunerated me for marketing detergents.
b. transitive (reflexive). With the implication of the pursuit of financial advantage as opposed to the receipt of deserved reward.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [verb (reflexive)] > take advantage
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advantage1570
to avail oneself ofa1616
remunerate1793
1793 Polit. Corr. v. 128 The party..who may have supplied the means of public corruption, will, undoubtedly, by additional burthens, amply remunerate themselves by the vast sums which have been absorbed in the vortex of avarice and meanness!
1839 T. Hopkins Great Brit. for Last 40 Years i. 62 The landowners, as a body, have the power to increase their rent-tax, so as to remunerate themselves for any tax imposed on them.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 13 To remunerate themselves for which trouble..they only charged three guineas each man.
1886 in S. Webb & B. Webb Industr. Democracy (1920) ix. 444 They accept terms that are disadvantageous to themselves, trusting to their power of remunerating themselves by legally pilfering a portion off each of their workers' weekly earnings.
1917 F. H. Simmonds Hist. World War I. ii. 35 Serbia and not Bulgaria had conquered and held all of Macedonia and could remunerate herself as she saw fit.
1980 J. Warry Warfare in Classical World 107/3 The Gauls..remunerated themselves by the plunder of friend and foe alike.
c. transitive. Of a thing: to recompense or compensate (a person) for an expense, a service rendered, etc.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] > of things: yield recompense for
repay1610
paya1616
remunerate1820
1820 H. G. Bennett Let. to Lord Bathurst 88 The consequent want of market to the settler for his produce, except at a price which does not remunerate him for the cost of cultivation.
1849 R. Cobden Speeches 34 The principle that our exclusive trade with the colonies remunerates us for the expense of colonial establishments.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. xix. 325 I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
1895 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia in 17th Cent. I. vi. 411 It is doubtful whether one crop of tobacco would remunerate the tenant for the expense of hewing down the woods covering the soil which he had leased.
1913 A. C. Davis Farmers' Educ. & Co-operative Union of Amer. 10 The distribution of your crops at a price that will remunerate you for the toil and labor of production.
2007 C. Connerly in G.-J. Knaap et al. Incentives, Regul. & Plans v. 120 Affordable housing development does not remunerate local governments adequately for the infrastructure and services they provide.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for > give as compensation
remunerate1595
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine ii. iii For your houses burnt We will remunerate you store of gold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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