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Remunerate

To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Recoup 76% connected

Alt. of Recoupe

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Reimburse 76% connected

To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse…

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Remunerative 74% connected

Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Remunerative 74% connected

Affording remuneration; as, a remunerative payment for services; a remunerative business.

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Compensate 92% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recompense 92% connected

To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Amends n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: equivalent, service, loss, expense, sacrifice.
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Average noun · 78% connection

The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: equivalent, service, loss, expense, sacrifice.
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Chivalry noun · 78% connection

A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: equivalent, service, loss, expense, sacrifice.
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Compensation noun · 78% connection

That which constitutes, or is regarded as, an equivalent; that which makes good the lack or variation of something else; that which co…

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Cost verb · 78% connection

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, s…

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Equivalent noun · 78% connection

Something equivalent; that which is equal in value, worth, weight, or force; as, to offer an equivalent for damage done.

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Expense noun · 78% connection

That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom t…

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Gratify verb · 78% connection

To requite; to recompense.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: equivalent, service, loss, expense, sacrifice.
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Gratuitous adjective · 78% connection

Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; n…

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Gratuity noun · 78% connection

Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.

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Hecatomb noun · 78% connection

A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.

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Holocaust noun · 78% connection

Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

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Homer noun · 78% connection

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…

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Immolate verb · 78% connection

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.

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Immolator noun · 78% connection

One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.

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Labor-saving adjective · 78% connection

Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, labor-saving machinery.

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Loss verb · 78% connection

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

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Militia noun · 78% connection

In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those c…

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