REMUNERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remuneration mean? 

• REMUNERATION (noun)
  The noun REMUNERATION has 2 senses:

1. something that remunerates

2. the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses

  Familiarity information: REMUNERATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMUNERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that remunerates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage

Context example:

they saved a quarter of all their earnings

Hypernyms ("remuneration" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remuneration"):

combat pay (extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat)

double time (a doubled wage (for working overtime))

found (food and lodging provided in addition to money)

half-pay (reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time)

living wage (a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably)

merit pay (extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers))

minimum wage (the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law)

pay envelope; pay packet (wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner)

sick pay (wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave)

strike pay (money paid to strikers from union funds)

take-home pay (what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc)

Holonyms ("remuneration" is a part of...):

payroll; paysheet (a list of employees and their salaries)

Derivation:

remunerate (make payment to; compensate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

adequate remuneration for his work

Hypernyms ("remuneration" is a kind of...):

defrayal; defrayment; payment (the act of paying money)

Derivation:

remunerate (make payment to; compensate)

 Context examples 

And after such classification he avoided the things that hurt, the restrictions and restraints, in order to enjoy the satisfactions and the remunerations of life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The last mile I performed on foot, having dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had promised.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Principle Investigator (PI) must have a formal written appointment with the applicant organization, which must be in the form of an official relationship between the parties, but need not involve a salary or other form of remuneration.

(Grant Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)

My friend Heep has not fixed the positive remuneration at too high a figure, but he has made a great deal, in the way of extrication from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, contingent on the value of my services; and on the value of those services I pin my faith.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine—such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I need it, and I seek it so far, sir, that some true philanthropist will put me in the way of getting work which I can do, and the remuneration for which will keep me, if but in the barest necessaries of life.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)