REMUNERATIONS Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

remunerations

noun

plural of remuneration

as in payments

the act of offering money in exchange for goods or services customers who are tardy in their remuneration will be subject to extra charges

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as in compensations

payment to another for a loss or injury the vandals were ordered to pay the property owners thousands of dollars in remuneration

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as in wages

something (as money) that is given or received in return for goods or services we can't accept your remuneration for services provided until we officially bill you

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Noun

California’s richest residents would be able to spread the payments over five years.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The first wave of Social Security payments for July is scheduled to be distributed this week.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 6 July 2026

Definition of payments

Noun

This can help address strength imbalances and movement compensations that, over time, can lead to injury.

— Jenessa Connor, Health, 10 June 2026
Still, Fiedler shows convincingly enough that American writers’ attempts to adapt the seduction narrative to our concerns—to reimagine it so as to preserve our enduring sense of ourselves as innocents—explain our literature’s peculiar aversions and resultant compensations.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

Definition of compensations

Noun

For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Anthropic gives serious attention to displacement, including the possibility of durable pressure on wages and employment, while the Vatican insists that work is tied to dignity, participation and citizenship.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of wages

Noun

In the lawsuit, Flagg is asking for injunctive relief, damages, profits and attorneys' fees, arguing Swift's use of the phrase could create consumer confusion and damage the value of her existing brand.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 6 July 2026
According to the complaint, the Barbours are seeking personal injury damages for their physical injuries, and survival and wrongful death damages for Avila's estate.

— Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of damages

Noun

Here are some top salaries for doctors in their peak earning years, ages 40 to 55, according to the researchers.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 5 July 2026
Cuts to funding for people with disabilities, rising tuition costs and slashed teacher salaries would all be on the table, said Fogle, a Springfield Democrat.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026

Definition of salaries

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Alameda County supervisors voted Tuesday to create a permanent reparations committee for Black residents, moving a sweeping set of recommendations from study to the harder question of implementation.

— Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 1 July 2026
This vessel has a controversial past, built by Nazi Germany in 1935 as SSS *Horst Wessel*, named after a Nazi martyr, before being taken as war reparations by the US.

— Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of reparations

Noun

Just to cover the city’s various bond measures, the owner of a home with an assessed value of $1 million pays around $1,145 annually.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Even with premiums, co-pays and deductibles, the federal government cannot afford Medicare-for-some.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 26 May 2026

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