|
Definition of Reward
1. Verb. Bestow honor or rewards upon. "The scout was rewarded for courageous action"
Specialized synonyms: Drink, Pledge, Salute, Toast, Wassail, Dignify, Ennoble, Decorate
Generic synonyms: Recognise, Recognize
Antonyms: Dishonor
Derivative terms: Honor, Honor, Honoree, Honour, Honour
2. Noun. A recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing. "Virtue is its own reward"
3. Verb. Strengthen and support with rewards. "Let's reinforce good behavior"
Generic synonyms: Instruct, Learn, Teach
Derivative terms: Reinforcement, Reinforcement, Reinforcer
4. Noun. Payment made in return for a service rendered.
Generic synonyms: Payment
5. Verb. Act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions.
6. Noun. An act performed to strengthen approved behavior.
Generic synonyms: Approval, Approving, Blessing
Specialized synonyms: Carrot
Derivative terms: Reinforce
7. Noun. The offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property.
8. Noun. Benefit resulting from some event or action. "Reaping the rewards of generosity"
Generic synonyms: Benefit, Welfare
Derivative terms: Advantage
Antonyms: Penalty
Definition of Reward
1. v. t. To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
2. n. Regard; respect; consideration.
Definition of Reward
1. Noun. Something of value given in return for an act. ¹
2. Noun. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch ¹
3. Noun. The result of an action, whether good or bad. ¹
4. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To give (something) as a reward. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To give a reward to or for. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To recompense. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reward
1. to give recompense to for worthy behavior [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Reward
1. 1. Regard; respect; consideration. "Take reward of thine own value." (Chaucer) 2. That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; especially, 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." (Milton) "Rewards and punishments do always presuppose something willingly done well or ill." (Hooker) 3. Hence, the fruit of one's labour or works. "The dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward." (Eccl. Ix. 5) 4. Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Synonym: Recompense, compensation, remuneration, pay, requital, retribution, punishment. See: Reward, and cf. Regard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reward
Literary usage of Reward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
""But the just shall live for evermore: and their reward is with the Lord" ...
"Be not afraid to be justified even to death: for the reward of God con- ..."
2. Biennial Report by Michigan State Highway Dept (1914)
"The state highway commissioner is hereby given when reward authority to refuse
to grant any further road reward to any refused. township or county that has ..."
3. Biennial Report by Michigan State Highway Dept (1910)
"No claim for State reward for improved roads of over two miles in any one township
in any one fiscal year shall be allowed by the state highway commissioner ..."