recompense

1. 1.

   payment or reward (as for service rendered)

   Broaderpayment

   Narrowerallowancecompensation
2. 2.

   the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

   Synonymscompensation

   Broadercorrection

   Narrowerindemnification

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymscompensaterepairindemnify

   Broaderpay

   Narrowergive
2. 2.

   make payment to; compensate

   “My efforts were not remunerated”

   Synonymscompensateremunerate

   Broaderpay

   Narrowerrecoup

Other forms of recompense

plural

recompenses·

past tense

recompensed·

present participle

recompensing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recompense

What does recompense mean?

recompense means "payment or reward (as for service rendered)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recompense?

recompense has 3 syllables: rec-om-pense. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛkəmˌpɛns/.

What is another word for recompense?

Close synonyms include compensation, compensate, repair, indemnify, compensate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is recompense a common word?

recompense is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.