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remunerate, v.|rɪˈmjuːnəreɪt|
[f. L. remūnerāt-, ppl. stem of remūnerārī (later -āre), to reward, f. re- re- + mūnus a gift; cf. F. rémunérer.]
1. trans. To repay, requite, make some return for (services, etc.).
1523Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 313 Entending to remembre and also remunerate the olde acquayntaunces. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 37, I will remunerate your kindnesse with most ample recompence. 1607Dekker Sir T. Wyat Wks. 1873 III. 90 She no doubt, with royall fauour will remunerate The least of your desertes. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 13 That was to teach righteousnesse, but this to remunerate it.
2. To reward (a person); to pay (one) for services rendered or work done.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 398 Is she not then beholding to the man..? Yes, and will Nobly him remunerate. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. lxxxii. 343 Should Succession fault in not remunerating thee With such a Monument. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 534 The king remunerated them both, the former with an addition of honour, the latter with an accession of estate. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xiv, The great Hubbard had acted legitimate drama for twenty nights, and failed to remunerate anybody but himself. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 526 Dryden..received thirteen hundred pounds for his translation of all the works of Virgil, and was thought to have been splendidly remunerated.
refl.1838Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, To remunerate themselves for which trouble.., they only charged three guineas each man.
b. Of things: To recompense or repay (one).
1849Cobden Speeches 34 The principle that our exclusive trade with the colonies remunerates us for the expense of colonial establishments. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. ix. (1870) 188 There are few plants that remunerate so largely the labours of the husbandman.
†3. To give as compensation. Obs. rare—1.
1595Locrine ii. iii, For your houses burnt We will remunerate you store of gold.
Hence reˈmunerated ppl. a.; reˈmunerating vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also reˌmuneraˈtee, one who receives remuneration.
1611Cotgr., Remuneration, a remuneration, remunerating. 1816–30Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extr. Const. Code (1830) 14 The benefit of it diffuses itself among any, who..are in any way connected with the remuneratee. 1825Ibid., Observ. Peel's Sp. (1830) 32 The very field for which it is proposed to engage their remunerated services. 1843Marryat M. Violet xliv, Objects that bring no remunerating value. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 272 The farmer..would get a more remunerating crop from his land than he would obtain under a system of thinner sowing. |