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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.
- "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
- three farthings, remuneration.William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- "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
- ] Now will I look to his remuneration.William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost
- 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
- 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
remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)
remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)
remuneration = payment
remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)
remuneration = payment (for work and/or expenses)
(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.)
(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.)
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