Reward
[rɪ'wɔːd] or [rɪ'wɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior.
(noun.) the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property.
(noun.) payment made in return for a service rendered.
(verb.) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions.
Editor: Ricky--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
(n.) Regard; respect; consideration.
(n.) That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital.
(n.) Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
(n.) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
Editor: Olaf
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Recompense, compensate, requite, remunerate.
n. [1]. Recompense, compensation, GUERDON, requital, remuneration, pay.[2]. Premium, bonus, bounty.
Typed by Lisa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compensate, honor, decorate, remunerate, pay, recompense
ANT:Punish, misrequite
Editor: Ricky
Definition
n. that which is given in return for good or evil: recompense: retribution: the fruit of one's own labour: regard: requital: remuneration: guerdon: consideration.—v.t. to give in return: to requite whether good or evil: to punish: (B.) to recompense: to compensate: to notice carefully: to watch over.—adj. Rewar′dable capable or worthy of being rewarded.—n. Rewar′dableness.—adv. Rewar′dably.—n. Rewar′der one who rewards.—adjs. Reward′ful yielding reward; Reward′less having or receiving no reward.
Edited by Constantine
Examples
- Great was the labour; priceless the reward. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This was then the reward of my benevolence! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Help us all you can to find her, and may Heaven reward you! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Honour makes a great part of the reward of all honourable professions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Is a commander first to give cruel orders, and then to forgive and reward those who slay his instruments? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No person in any class in which you were an exhibitor received a like reward. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For if the righteous are only unpunished, still they have no further reward, while the wicked may be unpunished and have the pleasure of sinning too. Plato. The Republic.
- On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescension of its lovely presence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were numerous brothers and sisters, and the family pursued the French authorities with importunities for rewards and jobs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And yet no mention has been made of the greatest prizes and rewards which await virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- Setting aside their rewards and results, I want to know what they are in themselves, and how they inwardly work in the soul. Plato. The Republic.
- The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yes, he said, and glorious rewards they are. Plato. The Republic.
- I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The key was in the lock, and a few moments of investigation and experimentation were rewarded with the successful opening of the receptacle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden portion of the moor, and soon our perseverance was gloriously rewarded. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Those whom he can find, therefore, are very liberally rewarded. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Neither virtue nor vice is rewarded in every case! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The labourer is rich or poor, is well or ill rewarded, in proportion to the real, not to the nominal price of his labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Bravest and best of children, I thank Heaven that you are rewarded! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was a rewarding of sin; the wrong result of a delusion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Fred had been rewarding resolution by a little laxity of late. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I did as she bade me--rewarding myself afterwards for my obedience--and she charmed me out of my graver character for I don't know how long. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Ralph