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| Part of Speech: | noun |
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all straight, compensating, compensatory, countervailing, equivalent, in the opposite scale, moratory, never indebted, out of debt, owing nothing, paid, paying, unowed
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| Concept: | Compensation. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
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compensation, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise neutralization, nullification; counteraction; reaction; measure for measure; retaliation, equalization [more]; robbing Peter to pay Paul., set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro quo; bribe, hush money; amends (atonement); counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
-verbs
make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, make leeway; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem (atone).
-adjectives
compensating, compensatory; countervailing; in the opposite scale; equivalent (equal).
-adverbs
in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless, none the less; although, though; albeit, howbeit; mauger; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand meme, however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing with another (average).
-phrases
" light is mingled with the gloom " [Whittier]; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter [Vergil]; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas [Ovid].
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| Concept: | Discount. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret.
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discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.
-adjectives
discounting
-adverbs
at a discount, below par.
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| Concept: | Payment. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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payment, defrayment; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement., acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands; voucher., repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay(reward); money paid (expenditure)., ready money (cash); stake, remittance, installment., payer, liquidator.
-verbs
pay, defray, make payment; paydown, pay on the nail, pay ready money, pay at sight, pay in advance; cash, honor a bill, acknowledge; redeem; pay in kind., pay one's way, pay one's shot, pay one's footing; pay the piper, pay sauce for all, pay costs; do the needful; shell out, fork out; come down with, come down with the dust; tickle the palm, grease the palm; expend; put down, lay down., discharge, settle, quit, acquit oneself of; foot the bill; account with, reckon with, settle with, be even with, be quits with; strike a balance; settle accounts with, balance accounts with, square accounts with; quit scores; wipe off old scores, clear off old scores; satisfy; pay in full; satisfy all demands, pay in full of all demands; clear, liquidate; pay up, pay old debts., disgorge, make repayment; repay, refund, reimburse, retribute; make compensation.
-adjectives
paying paid; owing nothing, out of debt, all straight; unowed, never indebted.
-adverbs
to the tune of; on the nail, money down.
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| Antonyms: | nonpayment |
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| Concept: | Price. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
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price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure; demand, damage; fare, hire, wages (remuneration); value., dues, duty, toll, tax, impost, cess, sess, tallage, levy; abkari; capitation tax, poll tax; doomage [U.S.], likin; gabel, gabelle; gavel, octroi, custom, excise, assessment, benevolence, tithe, tenths, exactment, ransom, salvage, tariff; brokerage, wharfage, freightage., bill (account); shot.
-verbs
bear a price, set a price, fix a price; appraise, assess, doom [U.S.], price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up; distrain; run up a bill (debt); have one's price; liquidate., amount to, come to, mount up to; stand one in., fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford.
-adjectives
priced; to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary, venal.
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no penny no paternoster; point d'argent point de Suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper.
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| Concept: | Reward. |
| Category: | 5. Institutions |
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reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon; price; indemnity, indemnification; compensation, reparation, redress; quittance; retribution, reckoning, acknowledgement, requital, amends, sop; atonement; consideration, return, quid pro quo; salvage, perquisite; vail (donation); douceur, bribe; hush money, smart money; blackmail; carcelage; solatium., allowance, salary, stipend, wages; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; premium; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage., crown (decoration of honor).
-verbs
reward, recompense, repay, requite; remunerate, munerate; compensate; fee; pay one's footing (pay) [more]; make amends, indemnify, atone; satisfy, acknowledge., get for one's pains, reap the fruits of.
-adjectives
remunerative, remuneratory; munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory.
-phrases
fideli certa merces; honor virtutis praemium [Cicero]; tibi seris tibi metis.
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| Antonyms: | punishment |
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