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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payment |
| Synonyms: | compensation, pay, profit, returns |
| Main Entry: | fee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge for service or privilege |
| Synonyms: | account, ante, bill, bite*, chunk, commission, compensation, consideration, cost, cut*, emolument, end*, expense, gravy, handle, hire, honorarium, house*, juice*, pay, payment, percentage, piece of the action, piece*, price, rake-off, recompense, remuneration, reward, salary, share, slice*, stipend, take*, take-in, toll, wage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquisition, winnings |
| Synonyms: | accretion, accrual, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, advancement, advantage, attainment, benefit, boost, buildup, cut, dividend, earnings, emolument, gravy, growth, headway, hike, improvement, income, increase, increment, lucre, payoff, proceeds, produce, profit, progress, receipts, return, rise, share, take, up*, upping, velvet*, yield |
| Antonyms: | expenditure, forfeit, forfeiture, loss, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- In spite of his surroundings and what one may justly surmise to be a small emolument for his scholastic duties.
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
| Synonyms: | allowance, bacon, bread, commission, compensation, consideration, defrayment, emoluments, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, meed, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompensation, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, stipendium, take-home, takings, wage, wages |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | product |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result or goods created |
| Synonyms: | aftermath, amount, artifact, blend, brand, brew, by-product, commodity, compound, concoction, confection, consequence, contrivance, creation, crop, decoction, device, effect, emolument, fabrication, fruit, gain, handiwork, invention, issue, legacy, line, manufacture, merchandise, offshoot, outcome, outgrowth, output, preparation, produce, production, profit, realization, result, returns, spinoff, stock, synthetic, upshot, work, yield |
| Antonyms: | cause, resource |
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, aggrandizement, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line, cleanup, earnings, emoluments, gate*, goods*, gravy, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, outturn, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim, split*, surplus, take*, takings, turnout, use, value, velvet*, winnings, yield |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | recompense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something returned, paid back |
| Synonyms: | amends, atonement, bus fare, compensation, cue, damages, emolument, expiation, gravy, indemnification, indemnity, overcompensation, pay, payment, propitiation, quittance, recoupment, recovery, redemption, redress, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retrieval, retrievement, return, reward, salvo, satisfaction, solatium, sweetener, tip, wages |
| Antonyms: | take |
| Main Entry: | reparation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation, amends |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, apology, atonement, damages, dues, emolument, expiation, indemnification, indemnity, making good, payment, penance, propitiation, quittance, recompense, redemption, redress, remuneration, renewal, repair, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, satisfaction, settlement, squaring things |
| Antonyms: | extortion, penalty, theft |
| Main Entry: | revenue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | income, profit |
| Synonyms: | acquirement, annuity, bottom line, cash flow, credit, dividend, earnings, emolument, fruits, fund, gain, gate*, get*, gravy, handle*, interest, means, net, pay, payoff, perquisite, proceeds, receipt, resources, return, reward, salary, split*, stock, strength, take*, takings, wages, wealth, yield |
| Antonyms: | debt, payment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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