a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward)

Having worth, merit, or value, Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous, obsolete Of high station; of high social position, noun_ a distinguished or eminent person, an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously), A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural, transitive verb_ obsolete To render worthy; to exalt into a hero, verb_ transitive To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore

(Economics) The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of others, a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing, plural one's total income for a time period, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wage

To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially, To stay with (someone) as a guest, To consider or discuss, transitive verb_ To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon, To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect, (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge, verb_ go to see a place, as for entertainment, come to see in an official or professional capacity, assail, noun_ the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity, medicine, insurance A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home, A single act of visiting

To give up or surrender in exchange for a price or reward, To bring about or encourage sales of; promote, To persuade (another) to recognize the worth or desirability of something

Plural form of reward, verb_ Third person singular of reward

A sum of money offered for taking or detecting a criminal, or for the recovery of anything lost, That which is given in return for good or evil done or received; esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, etc.; recompense; requital, Something of value given in return for an act, verb_ act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions, strengthen and support with rewards, bestow honor or rewards upon, transitive verb_ To give a reward to or for, To recompense, To give a reward to or for

To grant an amount or other benefit legally due, give, especially as an honor or reward, noun_ An amount or other benefit granted as legally due, something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery

the act or process of expending resources, especially money, to achieve rewards, the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit, verb_ Present participle of invest