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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
(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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