Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Yielding suitable recompense; profitable.
- adj. Serving to remunerate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affording remuneration; yielding a sufficient return: as, a remunerative occupation.
- Exercised in rewarding; remuneratory.
- Synonyms Profitable, paying.
Wiktionary
- adj. Offering compensation, usually financial; rewarding.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Affording remuneration.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. producing a sizeable profit
- adj. for which money is paid
Etymologies
- From remunerate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The terms of nearly every immigration status, at least at the early stages, prohibit engaging in remunerative activity without authorization to work.”
“Why didn’t another term for remunerative and likely career-oriented activity gain such worldwide use?”
“A donation is called remunerative when inspired by a sentiment of gratitude for services rendered by the donee.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“His adventures had succeeded, both in quality of patient care, and what are termed remunerative and secure bank investments.”
“Unless these so called remunerative projects earn any revenue which could be kept as”
“If a permit to one of these "remunerative" areas is denied, the circus may apply to a small town outside of the "metropolis" for a few days, reapplying for a different time slot in the big city.”
“Report, "that" the most really 'remunerative' form of 'relief' works for the unemployed would often be a course of instruction in some new trade or handicraft "Technical education is strongly recommended; Labour”
“The result: women lose out on satisfying and remunerative careers, men don't experience the day-to-day of their children's lives, reaping too few of parenting's rewards.”
The Guardian: Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher – review
“Gladwell makes clear that looking at top-line profit and loss data doesn't begin to capture how remunerative sports ownership is.”
“It was no longer about who your client was, but how remunerative you were," said William Henderson , a law professor at Indiana University and expert on law firms.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘remunerative’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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simple & useful2
nitwit, roguish, racketeering, mannerisms, aerialist, mangling, ineradicable, rickety, blatantly, libidinal, bungalow, axiomatic and 96 more...
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Wenderful's Whirled World of Blurred ...
Lexicon I likez... in no order whatsoever.
omnivalence, cerebration, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, rutabaga, septuagenarian, foible, vainglorious, leviathan, remunerative, catastrophize, ancillary and 182 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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my words
interminable, effete, convocation, philistines, malaise, foibles, deputation, anathematized, morass, stalwart, proselytize, abet and 405 more...
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GRE 3500 Q
quadruped, quaff, quaint, quandary, quarry, quay, queasy, quell, querulous, quibble, quietude, quip and 89 more...
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redtagevent's Words
exiguous, numen, recondite, concatenate, tuistic, interstitial, peroration, asperity, alacrity, expatiate, farouche, rhodomontade and 112 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Bartleby the Scrivener
Words to remember from Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"
imprimis, orbicular, remunerative, abrogation, advent, florid, dun, execrable, obstreperous, pernicious, vintner, potation and 28 more...
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Vocab List 1
compunction, derelict, sacrosanct, unction, cathartic, torrid, adumbrate, venality, rhizome, vicissitude, conjugal, virility and 50 more...
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Vocab
apoplectic, sapphic, inception, elephantine, precede, glean, prostrate, incarnation, tribunal, ordain, normative, liturgical and 20 more...
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SAT to remember words
know these so pwn the SAT and to show the ETS whose boss
beleaguered, balked, aplomb, remonstrated, ethereal, wanting, remunerative, protracted, derelict, erudition, solvency, turgid and 5 more...
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Reading List Vocabulary
Words I come across in reading
remunerative, waylay, peccadillo, disquisition, oeuvre, epistolary, pat, avail
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