Remunerates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To offer financial compensation in exchange for work performed or services rendered To provide monetary acknowledgment for contributions or efforts made To reward individuals through payment for tasks they have completed
2. Gives money to someone in return for their labor or services
3. Provides compensation to an individual for the effort or work they have done

Etymology: "Remunerates" is the third-person singular form of "remunerate," so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb comes from the stem of the Latin "remunerare," meaning "to reward," built from the prefix "re-" and "munerare," which itself derives from "munus," meaning "gift." The original idea was therefore a return of a gift: a reward given in answer to a service. That gift-based root explains why the word has nothing to do with money, even though modern usage almost always involves payment. Latin "munus" carried a sense of obligation and favour, and the English verb kept the notion of giving something back in exchange for effort. Pay for work, in other words, is a later and narrower application of an older idea about gifts and gratitude.

Synonyms: pays, compensates, recompenses, rewards, salaries

Antonyms: withholds, denies, punishes, fines, penalizes