remuneration

1. 1.

   something that remunerates

   “wages were paid by check”

   “he wasted his pay on drink”

   “they saved a quarter of all their earnings”

   Synonymswagepayearningssalary

   Broaderregular payment

   Narrowercombat paydouble timefoundhalf-payliving wagemerit payminimum wagepay envelopesick paystrike pay

   Part ofpayroll
2. 2.

   the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses

   “adequate remuneration for his work”

   Broaderpayment

Other forms of remuneration

plural

remunerations·

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 remuneration

What does remuneration mean?

remuneration means "something that remunerates". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in remuneration?

remuneration has 5 syllables: re-mu-ne-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ɹɪˌmjunɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for remuneration?

Close synonyms include wage, pay, earnings, salary. 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 remuneration a common word?

remuneration 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.

What rhymes with remuneration?

133 words rhyme with remuneration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.