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| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
| Synonyms: | advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread*, consideration, coverage, deserts*, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, wage, counterclaim, damages, defrayal, indemnification, quittance, recoupment, remittal, remittance, take-home |
| Antonyms: | damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
all straight, compensating, compensatory, countervailing, equivalent, in the opposite scale, moratory, never indebted, out of debt, owing nothing, paid, paying, unowed
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-nouns
compensation, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise [more] neutralization, nullification; counteraction [more]; reaction; measure for measure; retaliation [more], equalization [more]; robbing Peter to pay Paul., set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro quo; bribe, hush money; amends (atonement) [more]; counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
-verbs
-adjectives
compensating, compensatory; countervailing; in the opposite scale; equivalent (equal) [more].
-adverbs
in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless, none the less; although, though; albeit, howbeit; mauger; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand meme, however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing with another (average) [more].
-phrases
" light is mingled with the gloom " [Whittier]; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter [Vergil]; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas [Ovid].
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| Main Entry: | assist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | assistance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
| Synonyms: | aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance, abetment, facilitation |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | bribe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff to influence illegal or wrong activity |
| Synonyms: | bait, blackmail, compensation, contract, enticement, envelope*, fringe benefit, gift, goody*, graft, gratuity, gravy*, grease*, hush money*, ice*, incentive, inducement, kickback, lagniappe, lure, payola*, perk*, perquisite, present, price, protection*, remuneration, reward, sop*, take, allurement, buyoff, corrupt money, corrupting gift, feedbag, influence peddling, sweetener, sweetening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deserts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | what is due one |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, deserving, discipline, due, merit, payment, penalty, punishment, recompense, requital, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, chastening, chastisement, disciplining, get hers, get his, guerdon, lumps, meed, talion, what is coming to one, what one is asking for |
| Main Entry: | due |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expected reward |
| Synonyms: | claim, comeuppance, compensation, deserts*, interest, need, payment, perquisite, prerogative, privilege, rate, recompense, repayment, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, right, satisfaction, title, vengeance, be in line for, entitlement, guerdon, merits, rights, what is coming to one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge for service or privilege |
| Synonyms: | account, ante*, bill, bite*, chunk*, commission, compensation, consideration, cost, cut*, emolument, end*, expense, gravy*, handle, hire, honorarium, house*, juice*, pay, payment, percentage, piece*, price, recompense, remuneration, reward, salary, share, slice*, stipend, take*, toll, wage, piece of the action, rake-off, take-in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | income |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money earned by work or investments |
| Synonyms: | assets, bottom line*, cash, cash flow, commission, compensation, earnings, gravy*, gross, harvest, honorarium, in the black, interest, livelihood, means, net, pay, payoff, proceeds, profit, receipts, revenue, royalty, salary, wage, avails, benefits, dividends, drawings, gains, returns, take home |
| Antonyms: | debt, expenses, bills |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, commission, compensation, consideration, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, wage, wages, defrayment, emoluments, meed, recompensation, stipendium, take-home, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | payback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | return |
| Synonyms: | accrual, compensation, gain, gate, income, interest, proceeds, profit, recompense, reimbursement, reparation, repayment, reward, take, yield, accruement, reciprocation |
| Main Entry: | penance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reparation for wrong |
| Synonyms: | absolution, atonement, attrition, compensation, compunction, confession, contrition, forgiveness, hair shirt, mortification, penalty, penitence, punishment, remorse, repentance, retribution, rue, ruth, sorrow, suffering, expiation, purgation, remorsefulness, sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation, shrift |
| Main Entry: | ransom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blackmail money paid for return of possession or person |
| Synonyms: | bribe, compensation, deliverance, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, expiation, liberation money |
| Main Entry: | recompense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something returned, paid back |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, compensation, cue, emolument, gravy*, indemnity, pay, payment, recovery, redemption, redress, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, return, reward, salvo, satisfaction, tip, wages, bus fare, damages, expiation, indemnification, overcompensation, propitiation, quittance, recoupment, retrieval, retrievement, solatium, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | returned money |
| Synonyms: | allowance, compensation, consolation, discharge, discount, kickback, payment, rebate, reimbursement, remuneration, repayment, restitution, retribution, return, satisfaction, settlement, acquittance, give-back, give-up, money back |
| Notes: | a rebate is a partial repayment, whereas a refund is a repayment of the total purchase price |
| Main Entry: | retribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payback for another's action |
| Synonyms: | comeuppance, compensation, eye for an eye*, justice, punishment, reckoning, recompense, redress, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge, reward, satisfaction, vengeance, avengement, avenging, counterblow, just desserts, revanche, what for |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment, prize |
| Synonyms: | accolade, award, benefit, bonus, bounty, comeuppance, compensation, crown*, cue, dividend, fringe benefit, gain, garland, gravy*, grease*, honor, just deserts*, merit, plum*, premium, profit, punishment, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retribution, return, salve, tip, wages, carrot*, feather in cap, goodies, guerdon, meed, perks, strokes, sweetener |
| Antonyms: | penalty, punishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
| Synonyms: | achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, gratification, happiness, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, resolution, reward, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being, conciliation, contentedness, good fortune, indemnification, propitiation, repletion, satiety |
| Antonyms: | discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | wage/wages |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings for work |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon*, bread*, compensation, cut, emolument, fee, hire, pay, payment, price, receipts, recompense, remuneration, return, reward, salary, share, stipend, sugar*, take*, bacon and eggs, returns, take-home |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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