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单词 rewardless
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
re•ward /rɪˈwɔrd/USA pronunciation   n. 
  1. 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?
  2. 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]
  1. 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 © 2024
re•ward  (ri wôrd),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
  2. something given or received in return or recompense for service, merit, hardship, etc.

v.t. 
  1. to recompense or requite (a person or animal) for service, merit, achievement, etc.
  2. 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
re•warda•ble, adj. 
re•warda•ble•ness, n. 
re•warda•bly, adv. 
re•warder, n. 
re•wardless, adj. 
    • 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.

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