recompense


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Synonyms for recompense

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for recompense

to give payment to in return for goods or services rendered

to give a satisfactory return to

something justly deserved

something given in exchange for goods or services rendered

The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for recompense

payment or reward (as for service rendered)

the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

make amends for

make payment to

Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in classic literature ?
Nay, keep it: Faustus will have heads and hands, Ay, all your hearts to recompense this deed.
Come, Faustus: while the Emperor lives, In recompense of this thy high desert, Thou shalt command the state of Germany, And live belov'd of mighty Carolus.
Now, the deliverance of the cardinal would be the ruin of our hopes; and our hopes are thus far the only recompense we have for labors in comparison with which those of Hercules were pygmean."
Le prix [beaucoup moins que] Ali Maachi [beaucoup plus grand que] cree en 2008 recompense chaque annee de jeunes createurs dans diverses activites artistiques.
Ce Prix recompense le meilleur achat automobile 2019, le jury salue ainsi la 3eme generation du createur des ludospaces, partenaire ideal de toutes les familles et tous les loisirs.
Summary: People in the Middle East aren't known for letting things go; every perceived insult, affront or breach of trust is treated with the same gravity as the Peloponnesian War, and reconciliation never comes with recompense.
Cheng Hsing-tse, an exonerated death row convict in Taiwan, has been awarded over NT$17 million (US$550,000) by the Taichung branch of the Taiwan High Court in recompense for a miscarriage of justice involving a murder of a police officer that resulted in his wrongful imprisonment for nearly 12 years, reports said Thursday.
I, and many of my friends, have given time and toil for scores of years to charitable works, with no thought of recompense - just as it should be.
An example: 'Long years this Shahnameh I toiled to complete, That the King might award me some recompense meet, But naught save a heart wrung with grief and despair, Did I get from those promises empty as air!
Yet she says the chances of some recompense are "increasingly unlikely" due to the "disappearance" of Loose Cannon.
Now she says the chances of some form of recompense are "increasingly unlikely" due to the "disappearance" of Loose Cannon.
(Mercer (2013) Performance stimulants devised to recompense performance at group level (Nica and Potcovaru, 2015) are a common manner of recompensing first-rate performance in the public sector.
Rabat - Sa Majeste le Roi Mohammed VI, que Dieu L'assiste, a bien voulu donne Son approbation a la promotion et la nomination d'un certain nombre de fonctionnaires du Royaume, en recompense de leur devouement et abnegation dans l'accomplissement du devoir, annonce mardi le ministere de la maison royale, du protocole et de la Chancellerie dans un communique, dont voici la traduction: