Dictionary Definition
reward
Noun
1 a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for
wrongdoing; "the wages of sin is death"; "virtue is its own reward"
[syn: wages, payoff]
2 payment made in return for a service
rendered
3 an act performed to strengthen approved
behavior [syn: reinforcement]
4 the offer of money for helping to find a
criminal or for returning lost property
5 benefit resulting from some event or action;
"it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of
generosity" [syn: advantage] [ant: penalty]
Verb
1 bestow honor or rewards upon; "Today we honor
our soldiers"; "The scout was rewarded for courageus action" [syn:
honor, honour] [ant: dishonor]
2 strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's
reinforce good behavior" [syn: reinforce]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔː(r)d
Noun
Synonyms
Translations
something of value given in return for an act
- Arabic: (mukāfa’a) , (jazā’)
- Chinese: 報酬, 报酬 (bàochóu)
- Czech: odměna
- Dutch: beloning
- Finnish: palkkio
- French: récompense
- German: Belohnung
- Greek: ανταμοιβή (antamoiví)
- Hungarian: jutalom
- Italian: ricompensa
- Japanese: 報酬
- Korean: 보수 (bosu)
- Portuguese: recompensa
- Russian: награда (nagráda) , вознаграждение (voznagražd'énije) , премия (pr'émija)
- Spanish: recompensa
- Swedish: belöning
result of an action
- Czech: odměna
- Japanese: 報い
- Russian: награда
Translations to be categorised
Verb
- To give a reward to.
- Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?
Derived terms
Translations
give a reward to
- Czech: odměnit
- Dutch: lonen
- Finnish: palkita
- Greek: αμείβω (amívo)
- Japanese: 報いる
- Portuguese: recompensar
- Russian: награждать (nagraždát') , наградить (nagradít') ; вознаграждать (voznagraždát') , вознаградить (voznagradít')
- Spanish: recompensar
- Swedish: belöna
See also
Extensive Definition
A reward may refer to:
- Bounty (reward), a reward, often money, offered as an incentive
- Reward website, a website that offers rewards for performing tasks
- Reward system, a collection of brain structures which induce pleasurable effects
- Loyalty program, marketing efforts that reward local buying behaviour
In music:
- "Reward", a 1981 single by The Teardrop Explodes
See also
- NowReward.com NowReward.com Reward you can find information about searching for people
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Oscar, amends, annihilation, atonement, award, bait, bane, biological death, blood
money, booby prize, bribe,
carrot, cessation of
life, clinical death, comeuppance, compensate, compensation, consideration, consolation
prize, crossing the bar, curtains, damages, death, death knell, debt of
nature, decease,
demise, departure, desert, deserts, dissolution, dividend, doom, dying, ebb of life, encouragement, end, end of life, ending, eternal rest, exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, favor, fee, fillip, final summons, finger of
death, first prize, get satisfaction, going, going off, grave, guerdon, hand of death, honor, honorarium, incentive, incitement, indemnification,
indemnify, indemnity, inducement, interest, invitation, jackpot, jaws of death, just
deserts, knell, last debt,
last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life,
loss of life, lure, make
amends, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, making
an end, meed, parting, passing, passing away, passing
over, pay, pay back, pay by
installments, pay off, pay on, payment, percentage, perishing, persuasive, plum, premium, prepay, price, prize, profit, provocation, punishment, quietus, quit, quittance, recompense, redress, release, remit, remunerate, remuneration, render, reparation, repay, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, rest, restitution, retribution, return, revenge, salary, salvage, satisfaction, satisfy, second prize, sentence
of death, shades of death, shadow of death, sleep, smart money, solatium, somatic death,
stimulation,
stimulative,
stimulus, summons of
death, sweepstakes,
sweetener, sweetening, tender, tribute, wergild, what is due, what is
merited, whet