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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024re•ward•ing /rɪˈwɔrdɪŋ/USA pronunciation adj. - giving or providing a reward:a rewarding experience; a rewarding occupation.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•ward•ing (ri wôr′ding),USA pronunciation adj. - affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like;
worthwhile. - affording financial or material gain;
profitable.
re•ward′ing•ly, adv. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: rewarding /rɪˈwɔːdɪŋ/ adj - giving personal satisfaction; gratifying
re•ward /rɪˈwɔrd/USA pronunciation n. - money offered for the finding or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost property, etc.:[countable]Do you suppose we'll get a reward for turning in this wallet?
- something given or received for services done, for doing something of merit, etc.: [countable]Seeing his children succeed was the most important reward in his life.[uncountable]There is not much financial reward in teaching.
v. [~ + object] - to give a reward to (a person or animal) for service, merit, etc.:The dog's owner rewarded it with a biscuit.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024re•ward (ri wôrd′),USA pronunciation n. - a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
- something given or received in return or recompense for service, merit, hardship, etc.
v.t. - to recompense or requite (a person or animal) for service, merit, achievement, etc.
- to make return for or requite (service, merit, etc.);
recompense.
- Anglo-French, Old North French, variant of Old French reguard, derivative of reguarder; see regard
- Old North French rewarder to look at, variant of Old French reguarder; (noun, nominal) Middle English: origin, originally, regard
- (verb, verbal) Middle English rewarden origin, originally, to regard 1275–1325
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged desert, pay, remuneration; requital; bounty, premium, bonus. Reward, prize, recompense imply something given in return for good. A reward is something given or done in return for good (or, more rarely, evil) received; it may refer to something abstract or concrete:a $50 reward; Virtue is its own reward.Prize refers to something concrete offered as a reward of merit, or to be contested for and given to the winner:to win a prize for an essay.A recompense is something given or done, whether as reward or punishment, for acts performed, services rendered, etc.; or it may be something given in compensation for loss or injury suffered, etc.:Renown was his principal recompense for years of hard work.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged compensate, pay, remunerate.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: reward /rɪˈwɔːd/ n - something given or received in return for a deed or service rendered
- a sum of money offered, esp for help in finding a criminal or for the return of lost or stolen property
- profit or return
- something received in return for good or evil; deserts
vb - (transitive) to give (something) to (someone), esp in gratitude for a service rendered; recompense
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old Norman French rewarder to regard, from re- + warder to care for, guard, of Germanic origin; see wardreˈwardless adj |