recompense
/'rekəmpens/
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The company offered a generous recompense for the employee's outstanding work.
Definition
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.
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.
The company offered a generous recompense for the employee's outstanding work.
Noun
- the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
- payment or reward (as for service rendered)
Verb
- make payment to; compensate
- My efforts were not remunerated
- 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