REMUNERATIONS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

remunerations

noun

plural of remuneration

as in payments

the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services customers who are tardy in their remuneration will be subject to extra charges

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as in compensations

payment to another for a loss or injury the vandals were ordered to pay the property owners thousands of dollars in remuneration

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as in wages

something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services we can't accept your remuneration for services provided until we officially bill you

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Noun

Bitcoin Payments May Return Through Abstraction The mistake is assuming Bitcoin payments have to return in their original form to matter.

— Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
For now, though, the team’s missing payments at the Coliseum could jeopardize their ability to finish out the 2026 regular season.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

Definition of payments

Noun

Over time, those compensations accumulate into structural inefficiency that is difficult to unwind and even harder to justify correcting.

— Kristofer Mussar, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.

— Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026

Definition of compensations

Noun

Reasonable people can disagree over whether capital gains should receive preferential tax treatment as against wages, whether the top marginal rate is too high, too low, or merely poorly designed.

— Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
The group also sought union-standard wages and benefits, as well as changes to working conditions.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026

Definition of wages

Noun

These cases aren’t about monetary damages, but instead injunctive relief—specifically, a court order that blocks the NCAA from disallowing an athlete whom the NCAA classifies as ineligible.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 July 2026
Take a wrongful termination case where the plaintiff asks for past and future wages loss, emotional dress, and damages for PTSD that allegedly occurred from a particularly stressful workplace.

— Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of damages

Noun

As for the college game, there is no public list of salaries so information is harder to pin down.

— Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Last week, health workers at Bunia General Hospital, the region’s largest medical center, had already gone on strike over unpaid salaries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026

Definition of salaries

Noun

Some in Nigeria view Yahoo Boys as folk heroes, stealing money from white foreigners as a means of reparations for slavery and colonialism.

— Mackenzie Farkus, Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2026
Last month, Mottley led a subcommittee of Caribbean leaders that launched a new slavery reparations manifesto during a reparations conference in Ghana.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of reparations

Noun

There is no Cost Per Mile (CPM), a digital marketing metric that represents the cost an advertiser pays for every 1,000 impressions.

— Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 3 June 2026

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