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A payment to a person for service rendered. Formerly used widely, e.g. for the salary or fee paid to… figurative. Reward, recompense.
That which is ‘thrown in’, or given in addition, to make up a deficiency of value; a premium, compensation, odds. Obsolete exc. U.S. and Scottish di…
The act of giving or (more usually) a thing given or received by way of recompense, acknowledgement, or reciprocity. Often with for.
A recompense, a compensation.