Sample Sentences forremuneration (editor-reviewed)
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Our policy is that employees cannot dispense "special" favors or privileges to anyone, even when there is no remuneration in return.remuneration = payment
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It was inadequate remuneration to make up for his expenses.
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"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?" (source)
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...from the simplest requests at a remuneration of ten centimos up to a peseta for... (source)
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Although idealistic Westerners like Ziemer who work at the Pheriche clinic receive no remuneration and must even pay their own travel expenses to and from Nepal, it is a prestigious posting that attracts highly qualified applicants from around the world.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised.† (source)
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Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favour of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former years (the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were also much more remunerative.† (source)standard suffix: 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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And from a scientific standpoint, don't overlook the fact that the impression of properly remunerated competence which you make on a patient is of just as much importance, in these days of the new psychology, as the drugs you get into him or the operations he lets you get away with.† (source)
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So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.† (source)
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Lily smiled: she knew that Selden had always been kind to his dull cousin, and she had sometimes wondered why he wasted so much time in such an unremunerative manner; but now the thought gave her a vague pleasure.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unremunerative means not and reverses the meaning of remunerative. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Accepting remunerations for favorable decisions, that sort of thing.† (source)
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It had given him indeed such an air of intending to live indefinitely that Mrs. Touchett, though more accessible to confusions of thought in the matter of this strange, unremunerative—and unremunerated—son of hers than she had ever been before, had, as we have learned, not scrupled to embark for a distant land.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unremunerated means not and reverses the meaning of remunerated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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She made repeated efforts to obtain some kind of remuneration for her service with the Union forces.† (source)
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It had not been easy or remunerative to persist as librarian in Fort Repose.† (source)
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But a glance on the great picture of life will show, that the duties of self-denial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, are seldom thus remunerated; and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty, produces on their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away.† (source)
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