different between remuneration vs reparation

English

Etymology

From Latin rem?ner?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /r??mju?n??re???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /r??mju?n??re???n/, /??.mju?.n?.??e?.??n/

Noun

remuneration (countable and uncountable, plural remunerations)

1. Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
2. A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
3. A recompense for a loss; compensation.

Synonyms

• reward
• recompense
• compensation
• pay
• payment
• repayment
• satisfaction
• requital

Related terms

• remunerability
• remunerable
• remunerably
• remunerate
• remunerative
• remunerator

Translations

Further reading

• remuneration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• remuneration in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• renumeration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reparatio, reparationis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reparation (countable and uncountable, plural reparations)

1. (usually in the plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).

   • I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.

2. (archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

   the reparation of a bridge or of a highway

   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

     The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.

Synonyms

• (a payment): restitution, compensation, amends, satisfaction
• (a renewing): restoration, repair

Related terms

• repair
• reparative

Translations

See also

• war reparations

Anagrams

• Praetorian, Prætorian, praetorian, prætorian

Swedish

Etymology

reparera +? -tion

Noun

reparation c

1. a repair (mending something broken)

Declension