REMUNERATIVE Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

remunerative

adjective

ri-ˈmyü-nə-rə-tiv

Definition of remunerative

as in lucrative

yielding a profit made a highly remunerative investment that will end up paying my college tuition

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Recent Examples of remunerative This mundane enterprise turned out to be reasonably remunerative. — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2025 One of higher education’s unsung scandals is enrollment caps for the most remunerative majors, namely the most technical and scientific. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025 At the same time, a growing chorus of policy wonks and public officials, including yours truly, have argued that Americans shouldn’t have to buy a college degree in order to find remunerative employment. — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 These hothouses draw an inexhaustible supply of idealistic pilgrims who’ve chosen to forego more stable and remunerative career paths in pursuit of the high-wire act that is a meaningful creative life. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for remunerative

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Along with lucrative offers for the universities, the shoe company creates critical Name, Image and Likeness opportunities for individual athletes via its ambassador program.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Still, with more than 40,000 industry jobs lost in the past few years, soundstages and vendor storefronts sitting empty, and lucrative overseas incentives seducing even more production away, things are bleak in town right now.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of lucrative

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The $55 billion deal — part-funded with $20 billion borrowed against EA itself — buys Riyadh a profitable business and control of some of the biggest franchises in the world’s biggest entertainment industry.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Companies are watching their cash piles dwindle, betting that all these upfront investments on data centers and costly AI systems from the likes of Nvidia will be profitable in the long run.

— Ari Levy,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of profitable

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