make amends for; pay compensation for

the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

(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

Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis, The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person periodically for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, half-year, or quarter. See wages, A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy, verb_ To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation, transitive verb_ To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to, adjective_ obsolete Saline

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

a person who is of equal standing with another in a group, A person or thing of equal status to others, One who or that which is not different in all or some respects from another; specifically, one who is not inferior or superior to another; a person having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, etc, adjective_ having the same quantity, value, or measure as another, having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task, verb_ make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching, be equal to in quality or ability, transitive verb_ To make equal return to; to recompense fully, To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to, To be worthy of; merit_ synonym_ earn, in To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well, verb_ be worthy or deserving, To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have

A deserving; that which makes one deserving of reward or punishment; merit or demerit; good conferred, or evil inflicted, which merits an equivalent return_ as, to reward or punish men according to their deserts, arid land with little or no vegetation, That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit, intransitive verb_ To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond, transitive verb_ To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities, adjective_ Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary, (Bot) the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place

Compensation given for services performed; salary or wages; stipend; recompense; hire_ as, a soldier's pay and allowances; the men demanded higher pay, A person considered with regard to his or her credit or reliability in discharging debts, Recompense or reward, adjective_ Requiring payment to use or operate, Of, relating to, giving, or receiving payments, Yielding valuable metal in mining, intransitive verb_ To bear a cost or penalty in recompense, To give money in exchange for goods or services, To afford an advantage to; profit, transitive verb_ To coat or cover (seams of a ship, for example) with waterproof material such as tar or asphalt