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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control, possession |
| Synonyms: | habitation, holding, inhabitancy, inhabitation, occupancy, ownership, residence, settlement, tenancy, tenure, title, use |
| 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: | payment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fee; installment of fee |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, advance, alimony, amends, amortization, amount, annuity, award, bounty, cash, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, disbursement, discharge, down, fee, hire, indemnification, outlay, part, pay-off, paying, pension, portion, premium, quittance, reckoning, recompense, redress, refund, reimbursement, remittance, remuneration, reparation, repayment, requital, restitution, retaliation, return, reward, salary, settlement, subsidy, sum, support, wage |
| Main Entry: | payoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conclusion, climax |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, clincher, consequence, culmination, day of reckoning, final reckoning, finale, judgment, moment of truth, outcome, pay, payment, punch line, result, retribution, reward, settlement, upshot |
| Antonyms: | introduction, start |
| Main Entry: | possession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something owned; property |
| Synonyms: | accessories, appointments, appurtenances, assets, baggage, belongings, chattels, effects, equipment, estate, fixtures, furnishings, furniture, goods, impedimenta, paraphernalia, province, real estate, settlement, tangibles, territory, things, trappings, tricks, wealth |
| Main Entry: | reckoning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computation, account |
| Synonyms: | IOU, adding, addition, arithmetic, bad news, bill, calculation, charge, check, ciphering, cost, count, counting, debt, due, estimate, estimation, fee, figuring, grunt*, invoice, score, settlement, statement, summation, tab, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refund |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | returned money |
| Synonyms: | acquittance, allowance, compensation, consolation, discharge, discount, give-back, give-up, kickback, money back, payment, rebate, reimbursement, remuneration, repayment, restitution, retribution, return, satisfaction, settlement |
| Notes: | a rebate is a partial repayment, whereas a refund is a repayment of the total purchase price |
| Main Entry: | regulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | managing, organizing |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, administration, arrangement, classification, codification, control, coordination, direction, governance, governing, government, guidance, handling, management, moderation, modulation, reconciliation, regimentation, reorganization, settlement, standardization, superintendence, supervision, systematization, tuning |
| Antonyms: | deregulation, disorganization, mismanagement |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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