Definition

1. Noun:

   • The act of compensating for service, loss, or injury: "Recompense" refers to something given or done as payment, reward, or amends.
   • Payment or reward (as for service rendered): It can specifically denote a sum of money or other benefit given in return for work, effort, or a loss suffered.

2. Verb:

   • To make payment to; compensate: To give someone a payment or reward for their efforts, services, or losses.
   • To make amends for; pay compensation for: To provide something, often money, to make up for a wrong, damage, or injury that has been caused.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • He received a generous recompense for his years of loyal service.
  • The court ordered the company to pay recompense to the victims of the accident.

• Verb:

  • The company promised to recompense the workers for their overtime.
  • No amount of money can truly recompense her for the loss of her home.

Advanced Usage

• "In recompense for": as a payment or reward for something.

  • She was given a bonus in recompense for her outstanding work on the project.

• "As a recompense": serving as compensation or reward.

  • He offered his help as a recompense for the trouble he had caused.

Variants and Related Words

• Recompensed (verb, past tense): The state of having been compensated.

  • The injured party was finally recompensed after a long legal battle.

• Recompensing (verb, present participle/gerund): The act of compensating.

  • Recompensing the victims is the first step towards justice.

Synonyms

• Compensate (verb): To give someone money or something else of value to make up for a loss or effort.
• Remunerate (verb): To pay someone for services rendered or work done.
• Reparation (noun): The making of amends for a wrong or injury, often through payment.

Related Phrases

• "Seek recompense": to try to obtain compensation or payment.

  • The artist sought recompense for the unauthorized use of her work.

• "Adequate recompense": compensation that is sufficient or appropriate.

  • The settlement was considered adequate recompense for the damages.

Idioms

• "A labor of love needs no recompense": This phrase suggests that work done for personal satisfaction or out of affection does not require payment. (Note: This is a conceptual idiom illustrating the word's meaning, not a fixed phrase containing "recompense").
  • For him, mentoring young people was a labor of love that needed no recompense.

Noun

1. the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
2. payment or reward (as for service rendered)

Verb

1. make payment to; compensate
   • My efforts were not remunerated
2. 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