MEANING
To pay someone for work or services.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- remunerate an employee
- remunerate services
On the page
The contract specified how the organization would remunerate the consultant.
The policy remunerated services separately from reimbursing documented travel costs.
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Word forms
- Base
- remunerate
- Past tense
- remunerated
- Past participle
- remunerated
- Present participle
- remunerating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- remunerate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are remunerating
- Present perfect
- have/has remunerated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been remunerating
- Past
- remunerated
- Past continuous
- was/were remunerating
- Past perfect
- had remunerated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been remunerating
- Future
- will remunerate
- Future continuous
- will be remunerating
- Future perfect
- will have remunerated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been remunerating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: remunerate; remunerates; remunerated; remunerated; remunerating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: economic process explanation, financial distinction, incentive analysis, institutional change. Disciplines: economics, business, public policy. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: remunerates.
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