remuneration

Word family

re·mu·ne·ra·tion /rɪˌmjuːnəˈreɪʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

formalPAY somebody FOR WORK the pay you give someone for something they have done for you 酬金；报酬

high rates of remuneration

很高的报酬

—remunerate /rɪˈmjuːnəreɪt/ verb [transitiveT]

Examples from the Corpus

remuneration• Four-fifths of chief executives favoured legislation requiring companies to have a remuneration committee dominated by outsiders.• Petitions to the Admiralty for remuneration for his discovery brought nothing.• Accordingly, in future the limit will rise with increase in the hourly remuneration rates, which should ease the position.• Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary, only the chief headmen received official remuneration.• Systems of formal warnings to control absence also seem to be less effective than the terms of the remuneration scheme.• Third, the remuneration system became performance-related.

From Longman Business Dictionary