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/rɪwˈɔrd/ /riwˈɔrd/ Listen

noun

Reward n.

Regard; respect; consideration. (Obs.) "Take reward of thine own value."

That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital. "Thou returnest From flight, seditious angel, to receive Thy merited reward." "Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill."

Hence, the fruit of one's labor or works. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward."

(Law) Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.

Synonyms: Recompense; compensation; remuneration; pay; requital; retribution; punishment.

verb

Reward v. t. (past & past part. rewarded; pres. part. rewarding) To give in return, whether good or evil; commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate. "After the deed that is done, one doom shall reward, Mercy or no mercy as truth will accord." "Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil." "I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me." "God rewards those that have made use of the single talent."

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... chances of war, and great actions of the commanders, and mutations of the form of our government. Upon the whole, a man that will peruse this history, may principally learn from it, that all events succeed well, even to an incredible degree, and the reward of felicity is proposed by God; but then it is to those that follow his will, and do not venture to break his excellent laws: and that so far as men any way apostatize from the accurate observation of them, what ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... men, methods, equipment, etc.; 2. ability to assign men to the work which they should do, to prescribe the method which they shall use, and to reward them for their output suitably; 3. ability to predict. On this ability to predict rests the possibility of making calendars, chronological charts and schedules, and of planning determining sequence of events, etc., which will be discussed at ...

— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth

... find some place where he could cross by a ford, as the bridges were all down; but no fording-place could be found. He then ordered the prisoners that he had taken to be all brought together, and he offered liberty and a large reward in money to any one of them that would show him where there was a ford by which he could get his army across the river. He thought that they, being natives of the country, would be sure to know about the fording-places, if any there were. One of the prisoners, a countryman named Gobin, ...

— Richard II - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... Constantinople and of a Te Deum in Saint Sophia's had risen in his brain. He not only employed in the East a force more than sufficient to have defended Piedmont and reconquered Loraine; but he seemed to think that England and Holland were bound to reward him largely for neglecting their interests and ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... who wishes to learn what chance Bright-Wits has of winning the promised reward, should cut out the rug on page at the back of the book, and try the task himself. Cut with a scissors or sharp knife ...

— Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore • Burren Laughlin and L. L. Flood

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