Recompense
['rekəmpens] or ['rɛkəm'pɛns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury.
(noun.) payment or reward (as for service rendered).
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Definition
(v. t.) To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.
(v. t.) To return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.
(v. t.) To give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
(v. i.) To give recompense; to make amends or requital.
(n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Reward, repay, requite, compensate, satisfy, remunerate.[2]. Reimburse, indemnify, redress, make up for, make amends for.
n. Reward, satisfaction, remuneration, compensation, indemnity, indemnification, amends.
Checked by Edwin
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensate
ANT:Damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfy
SYN:Reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends,[SeeSATISFACTION]
Checker: Rowena
Definition
v.t. to return an equivalent for anything: to repay or requite: to reward: to compensate: to remunerate.—n. that which is returned as an equivalent: repayment: reward: compensation: remuneration.—n. Rec′ompenser.
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Examples
- They will recompense him now, I hope, as he deserves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You ought to stand something handsome, Fagin, to recompense me for keeping house so long. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Damages, gentlemen--heavy damages is the only punishment with which you can visit him; the only recompense you can award to my client. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And then, dear boy, it was a recompense to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There ought, my dear, were it only to prove that this life is a mere state of probation, wherein neither rest nor recompense is to be vouchsafed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was happy in the return he had made her, he was recompensed for his suffering, he was proud of his strength. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The circumstances of gardeners, generally mean, and always moderate, may satisfy us that their great ingenuity is not commonly over-recompensed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In point of pecuniary gain, all things considered, they are generally under-recompensed, as I shall endeavour to shew by and by. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Guster has some recompenses for her many privations. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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