remunerate
Other forms: remunerated; remunerating; remunerates
If I owe you money, then I need to remunerate you. To remunerate is to pay money that is owed.
It's nice to be remunerated — that means someone paid you money that was owed. If an employer makes you work overtime, they will need to remunerate you for that. If you lost your dog, offered a reward, and then someone found the dog, that person should be remunerated. When you see remunerate, think "giving someone money they deserve."
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make payment to; compensate“My efforts were not remunerated”synonyms: compensate, recompense
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Vocabulary lists containing remunerate
In this classic of the transcendentalist movement, Thoreau explains what he learned by living simply and in seclusion near a pond in eastern Massachusetts.
In this romantic comedy, Henri, a Haitian-American teenager who dreams of attending Columbia University, is coerced into helping one of his classmates change her image.