Sample sentences for REMUNERATION

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Definition

payment (for work and/or expenses)

Our policy is that employees cannot dispense "special" favors or privileges to anyone, even when there is no remuneration in return.

It was inadequate remuneration to make up for his expenses.

remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)

"The remuneration can scarcely repay you," said Kate.
Dickens, Charles -- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Now will I look to his remuneration.
Shakespeare, William -- Love's Labour's Lost
...from the simplest requests at a remuneration of ten centimos up to a peseta for...
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)

three farthings, remuneration.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost

remuneration = payment

"Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth"-by which he meant: "What am I going to get out of it? and am I going to come back alive?"
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)

] Now will I look to his remuneration.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost

remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)

You may put the remuneration for your services at whatever figure you like in reason, and it shall be paid over to you before we start.
Haggard, Rider H. -- King Solomon's Mines
Mr. Gradgrind overwhelmed him with thanks, of course; and hinted as delicately as he could, at a handsome remuneration in money.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
This ability proved far more remunerative than my novel.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up

(editor's note: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.)

She made repeated efforts to obtain some kind of remuneration for her service with the Union forces.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Along with the letter was a severance check, which would be my final remuneration from Beaufort County.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
It's possible that she viewed older men as father figures and that financial remuneration for sexual favours was simply a convenient bonus.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
I don't want to pay too large a price for my friend, but I want you to have your proper percentage and be remunerated for your loss of time.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Declaration of Sentiments
They are kind people, and though I have on more than one occasion tonight offered remuneration for their hospitality, they will not hear of it.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day
The bearded robber quickly got through with his searching, and from his growls Duane gathered he had not been well remunerated.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
It had not been easy or remunerative to persist as librarian in Fort Repose.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

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