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remunerate

/ɹɪˈmjuːnəɹeɪt/

remunerate verb: to compensate; to pay.

Verb

remunerate (third-person singular simple present remunerates, present participle remunerating, simple past and past participle remunerated)

  1. (transitive) To compensate; to pay.
    • The workers were generously remunerated for their time.
    • For all their toughness, Roman soldiers were poorly remunerated. As Goldsworthy puts it, “you get paid, but your pay is comparable to that of an agricultural labourer.”2025 July 15, James Osborne, “Could you have survived as a Roman soldier? Here's the surprising truth about life in the ancient army”, in History Extra, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025

remunerate meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

remunerate in Urdu

to remunerate
اجرت دینا ujrat denā

remunerate in Malayalam

പണം കൊടുത്തു പ്രത്യുപകരിക്കുക, പ്രതിഫലം നല്കുക, നഷ്ടം കൊടുക്കുക

remunerate in Kannada

ಪ್ರತಿಫಲಕೊಡು, ಸಂಭಾವನೆ ನೀಡು, ವೇತನ ಕೊಡು

Forms of remunerate

third-person singular presentremunerates
present participleremunerating
past participleremunerated
pastremunerated

Origin of remunerate

From the participle stem of Latin remūnerō (“to reward”), from mūnus (“gift”). Unrelated to money.

Words formed from remunerate

Questions about remunerate

What does remunerate mean?
Remunerate means to compensate; to pay.
What is remunerate in Urdu?
Remunerate in Urdu is اجرت دینا (ujrat denā). See Remunerate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is remunerate?
Remunerate is a verb.
How do you pronounce remunerate?
Remunerate is pronounced /ɹɪˈmjuːnəɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of remunerate?
The past tense of remunerate is remunerated.

Words near remunerate in the dictionary

  1. remultiplies
  2. remultiply
  3. remultiplying
  4. remunerability
  5. remunerable
  6. remunerate
  7. remunerated
  8. remunerates
  9. remunerating
  10. remuneratingly
  11. remuneration

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: remunerate (page history and authors); اجرت دینا (Urdu) (page history and authors); remunerate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); remunerate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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