Synonyms for remuneration
Most common
compensation recompense indemnity satisfaction salary wage pay
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Compensation — A recompense for a loss; compensation
compensation, recompense, indemnity, satisfaction, indemnification, reimbursement, restitution, amends, redress, reparation, relief, meed, requital, guerdon, bote, retribution, atonement, requite
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
- n. 2
A recompense for a loss; compensation.
- n. 3
Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
Related words
- Word family
- remunerate remunerative remunerator
- Other spellings
- renumeration
Forms
- Plural
- remunerations → compensations, recompenses, indemnities, satisfactions…
Choose the right word
Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- compensation Felix's lawyer got him full and fair compensation.
- satisfaction Customer satisfaction is our number one priority.
- wage The recession has put the crunch on wage laborers.
- salary His low salary prevents him from buying the house.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| remuneration | falling | |
| compensation | falling | |
| satisfaction | steady | |
| indemnity | falling | |
| recompense | steady | |
| wage | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- pay1
- 4 letters
- wage1, hire2, bote, meed
- 5 letters
- wages2
- 6 letters
- relief2, salary3, reward2, amends2
- 7 letters
- payment2, redress2, stipend2, requite, guerdon
- 8 letters
- earnings2, requital
- 9 letters
- allowance3, repayment3, atonement3, indemnity4, emolument
- 10 letters
- recompense3, reparation4
- 11 letters
- retribution4, restitution4
- 12 letters
- compensation4, satisfaction4
- 13 letters
- consideration5, reimbursement4
- 15 letters
- indemnification6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hire2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- rémunération
- Italiano
- remunerazione
- Español
- remuneración
- Deutsch
- Entlohnung