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Synonyms for recompense
ˈrɛk əmˌpɛnsrec·om·pense
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Wiktionary
recompensenoun
Synonyms:
restitutionrecompensenoun
To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as recompense was an apology.
Synonyms:
restitution
English Synonyms and Antonyms
recompensenoun
An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.
Synonyms:
allowance, compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, remuneration, requital, salary, stipend, wages
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
recompense
Synonyms:
requite, remunerate, reward, indemnify, satisfy, repay, reimburse, compensateAntonyms:
damnify, injure, misrequite, dissatisfyrecompensenoun
Synonyms:
reward, indemnification, satisfaction, remuneration, amends
Princeton's WordNet
recompensenoun
payment or reward (as for service rendered)
Synonyms:
compensationrecompense, compensationverb
the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
Synonyms:
compensationcompensate, recompense, repair, indemnifyverb
make amends for; pay compensation for
"One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
Synonyms:
even off, revivify, right, make up, compensate, animate, remediate, fix, furbish up, remunerate, even out, mend, vivify, amend, pay, renovate, bushel, correct, quicken, counterbalance, overcompensate, even up, resort, restore, rectify, touch on, recreate, remedy, repair, cover, reanimate, redress, revive, pay off, doctor, indemnifycompensate, recompense, remunerateverb
make payment to; compensate
"My efforts were not remunerated"
Synonyms:
remunerate, pay, counterbalance, redress, even out, overcompensate, correct, even up, right, indemnify, cover, compensate, pay off, even off, repair, make up
Dictionary of English Synonymes
recompenseverb
Synonyms:
reward, repay, requite, compensate, satisfy, remuneraterecompenseverb
Synonyms:
reimburse, indemnify, redress, make up for, make amends forrecompensenoun
Synonyms:
reward, satisfaction, remuneration, compensation, indemnity, indemnification, amends
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
recompenseverb
Synonyms:
repay
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "recompense":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#234 | right | |
#539 | payment | |
#599 | pay | |
#846 | cover | |
#1630 | fee | |
#1666 | repair | |
#1847 | correct | |
#1864 | resort | |
#2034 | doctor | |
#2197 | hire | |
#2464 | fix | |
#3099 | compensation | |
#3537 | salary | |
#3729 | satisfaction | |
#3776 | earnings | |
#5701 | restore | |
#6680 | satisfy | |
#6846 | wages | |
#7436 | amend | |
#7439 | reward | |
#8193 | remedy | |
#8756 | allowance | |
#15260 | compensate | |
#15700 | remuneration | |
#19016 | repay | |
#20190 | quicken | |
#21126 | amends | |
#22740 | restitution | |
#23117 | revive | |
#23578 | reimburse | |
#24417 | indemnify | |
#26041 | recreate | |
#26478 | redress | |
#26982 | animate | |
#29761 | stipend | |
#29782 | indemnification | |
#31890 | rectify | |
#33156 | mend | |
#36089 | renovate | |
#47016 | bushel | |
#61208 | recompense | |
#67974 | counterbalance | |
#75462 | honorarium | |
#77777 | remediate | |
#193604 | requite | |
#233459 | remunerate | |
#247030 | reanimate | |
#257351 | overcompensate | |
#307426 | requital |
How to use recompense in a sentence?
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.
Translations for recompense
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- مكافأة, بدلArabic
- belønningDanish
- entschädigen, EntschädigungGerman
- rekompencoEsperanto
- recompensar, compensar, recompensaSpanish
- پاداشPersian
- korvausFinnish
- récompense, récompenserFrench
- ath-dhìoladh, dìolScottish Gaelic
- प्रतिदानHindi
- վճռաբերությունArmenian
- rekompensarIdo
- bætur, þóknun, launa, borga bæturIcelandic
- ಪುನರ್ಪರಿಶುದ್ಧಿ ಕೊಡುವುದುKannada
- recompensareLatin
- gjengjelde, erstatte, vederlag, erstatningNorwegian
- recompensaPortuguese
- recompensăRomanian
- возмещение, компенсировать, возместить, компенсация, возмещатьRussian
- vederlagSwedish
- mukafat, ödül, bedelTurkish
- אויסגלייךYiddish
- 报偿Chinese
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