REMUNERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remunerate mean? 

• REMUNERATE (verb)
  The verb REMUNERATE has 1 sense:

1. make payment to; compensate

  Familiarity information: REMUNERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMUNERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they remunerate    ... he / she / it remunerates   
Past simple: remunerated   
Past participle: remunerated   
-ing form: remunerating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make payment to; compensate

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

compensate; recompense; remunerate

Context example:

My efforts were not remunerated

Hypernyms (to "remunerate" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "remunerate"):

recoup; reimburse (reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

remuneration (the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses)

remuneration (something that remunerates)

remunerative (for which money is paid)

remunerative (producing a sizeable profit)

remunerator (a person who pays money for something)