remuneration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=mu=ner=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

remuneration, n. [L. remuneratio: cf. F. rémunération.].

•  The act of remunerating.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is given to remunerate; an equivalent given, as for services, loss, or sufferings.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Reward; recompense; compensation; pay; payment; repayment; satisfaction; requital.

THESAURUS

remuneration

amends, atonement, base pay, blood money, compensation, consideration, damages, dismissal wage, earnings, emolument, escalator clause, escalator plan, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, guerdon, hire, honorarium, income, indemnification, indemnity, living wage, meed, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, price, purchasing power, quittance, real wages, recompense, redress, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, requital, requitement, restitution, retribution, return, reward, salary, salvage, satisfaction, severance pay, sliding scale, smart money, solatium, stipend, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes, wergild

ROGET THESAURUS

remuneration

Reward

N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.