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# remunerate

«remunerate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To pay someone for work or a service** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (remunerate, remunerates, remunerated, remunerating)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal) To pay someone for work or a service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Exam and business voice: «Staff will be remunerated for overtime.» Adults use it in contracts and job adverts; children say «pay». Phrases: «well remunerated», «remunerate for».

### examples

- The workers were well remunerated for their extra hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#x1)
- Volunteers are not remunerated; they help for free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#x2)
- The company will remunerate you for travel costs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#x3)
- Helpers at the fair were remunerated with free ice cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#x4)
- How will the babysitter be remunerated? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/#x5)

### note

Formal word for «pay». Noun «remuneration» (pay, salary). Spelling trap: «remunerate», not «renumerate» (letters often swapped). In maths: if remunerated at £10 an hour for 3 hours, pay = £30.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «remunerate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/remunerate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.