All compensation synonyms

noun compensation

• repayment — to pay back or refund, as money.
• redress — the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses.
• settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
• payoff — the payment of a salary, debt, wager, etc.
• wage — Often, wages. money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week. Compare living wage, minimum wage.
• fee — a charge or payment for professional services: a doctor's fee.
• profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
• pay — to coat or cover (seams, a ship's bottom, etc.) with pitch, tar, or the like.
• earnings — money earned; wages; profits.
• restitution — reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
• reparation — the making of amends for wrong or injury done: reparation for an injustice.
• premium — a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement, as to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc.
• bonus — A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard.
• stipend — a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
• coverage — The coverage of something in the news is the reporting of it.
• payment — something that is paid; an amount paid; compensation; recompense.
• salary — a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
• reimbursement — to make repayment to for expense or loss incurred: The insurance company reimbursed him for his losses in the fire.
• benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
• indemnity — protection or security against damage or loss.
• reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
• allowance — An allowance is money that is given to someone, usually on a regular basis, in order to help them pay for the things that they need.
• remuneration — the act of remunerating.
• remittance — the sending of money, checks, etc., to a recipient at a distance.
• reprisal — (in warfare) retaliation against an enemy, for injuries received, by the infliction of equal or greater injuries.
• satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• scale — a succession or progression of steps or degrees; graduated series: the scale of taxation; the social scale.
• honorarium — a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• reciprocity — a reciprocal state or relation.
• atonement — If you do something as an atonement for doing something wrong, you do it to show that you are sorry.
• advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
• indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
• gain — to make a gain or gains in.
• consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
• reckoning — count; computation; calculation.
• bread — Bread is a very common food made from flour, water, and yeast.
• quittance — recompense or requital.
• amends — recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
• recompense — to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
• meet — greatest lower bound
• salt — See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
• requital — the act of requiting.
• remittal — a remission.
• damages — money to be paid as compensation to a person for injury, loss, etc
• defrayal — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
• counterclaim — a claim set up in opposition to another, esp by the defendant in a civil action against the plaintiff
• return — to go or come back, as to a former place, position, or state: to return from abroad; to return to public office; to return to work.
• plus — more by the addition of; increased by: ten plus two is twelve.