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noun

remuneration

payment given in return for work or a service

In a sentence

Six example sentences with remuneration, each labelled with its topic.

  • The contract offered no salary, only remuneration tied to each completed installation, which made the lean winter months genuinely alarming.

    Business

  • Solicitors taking legal aid cases receive remuneration fixed by statute, far below what private clients pay for identical hours.

    Law

  • Medieval masons were paid partly in bread and ale, a remuneration recorded carefully in the abbey's surviving building accounts.

    Architecture

  • Shareholders voted against the remuneration report, objecting to a bonus that exceeded the whole year's profit.

    Finance

  • The wedding band's remuneration came to two hundred dollars each, plus dinner, for five hours of playing and an hour of loading gear.

    Music

  • Early employees accept low remuneration in cash for a slice of equity, betting the shares will be worth more than the missing salary.

    Startups

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