remunerate

[ ri-myoo-nuh-reyt ]
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verb (used with object),re·mu·ner·at·ed, re·mu·ner·at·ing.
  1. to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.

  2. to yield a recompense for (work, services, etc.).

Origin of remunerate

1
First recorded in 1515–25; from Latin remūnerātus “repaid,” past participle of remūnerāri “to repay, reward,” from re- re- + mūnerāre “to give, bestow” (verb derivative of mūner-, stem of mūnus “gift, duty”)

Other words for remunerate

Other words from remunerate

  • re·mu·ner·a·ble, adjective
  • re·mu·ner·a·bil·i·ty, noun
  • re·mu·ner·a·bly, adverb
  • re·mu·ner·a·tor, noun
  • pre·re·mu·ner·ate, verb (used with object), pre·re·mu·ner·at·ed, pre·re·mu·ner·at·ing.
  • un·re·mu·ner·at·ed, adjective

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How to use remunerate in a sentence

  • From a sense of justice, I hastened to remunerate those who had been deprived of their coign of vantage, but, alas!

  • Each gentleman may remunerate his gatherer, but the said remuneration shall in each case remain the same.

    The Way of a Man | Emerson Hough
  • In some way the time they seem to lose is redeemed and the pains they seem to take remunerate themselves.

    Essays, First Series | Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men think very differently about what will remunerate any given labour.

  • And you should know this, you who dare to remunerate me in what is not 106 half as clean as those missiles.

    The Book of Khalid | Ameen Rihani

British Dictionary definitions for remunerate

remunerate

/ (rɪˈmjuːnəˌreɪt) /


verb
  1. (tr) to reward or pay for work, service, etc

Origin of remunerate

1
C16: from Latin remūnerārī to reward, from re- + mūnerāre to give, from mūnus a gift; see munificent

Derived forms of remunerate

  • remunerability, noun
  • remunerable, adjective
  • remunerator, noun

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