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reward
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/, /?i?w??d/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???w??(?)d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.
Displaced native Middle English lean (“reward”), from Old English l?an (“reward”); Middle English schipe, schepe (“reward, wage”), from Old English scipe (“wages, payment, reward”). Partially displaced Middle English meed, mede (“reward, meed, recompense”), from Old English m?d (“reward, meed, recompense”).
Noun
reward (plural rewards)
- Something of value given in return for an act.
- Synonyms: payment, recompense, tithing, meed
- Antonym: punishment
- A prize promised for a certain deed or catch
- Synonym: bounty
- The result of an action, whether good or bad.
- Synonym: consequence
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder, whence modern French regarder, also English regard through Middle French), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *ward?n (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon ward?n (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep”), Old High German wart?n (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward.
Verb
reward (third-person singular simple present rewards, present participle rewarding, simple past and past participle rewarded)
- (transitive) To give a reward to or for.
- (transitive) To recompense.
- (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
- Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
Derived terms
- rewardable
- rewarder
- rewarding
- unrewarded
Related terms
- award
Translations
Further reading
- reward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- reward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Warder, drawer, redraw, warder, warred
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reimburse
English
Etymology
1610s, re- (“back”) +? imburse (“pay”) (imburse (literally “put in a purse”), circa 1530, now obsolete), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i??m?b??(?)s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Verb
reimburse (third-person singular simple present reimburses, present participle reimbursing, simple past and past participle reimbursed)
- To compensate with payment; especially, to repay money spent on one's behalf.
- Synonym: (one sense, obsolete) imburse
Hypernyms
- compensate, pay
Derived terms
- reimbursable
- reimbursement
- reimburser
Related terms
- bursa, bursar, bursary
- purse
Translations
References
Anagrams
- umbrieres
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