Something that remunerates.

synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage.

Roget 807: payment, defrayment^†; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement.    acknowledgment, release; receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands; voucher.    salary, compensation, remuneration (reward) 973.    repayment, reimbursement, retribution; pay etc. (reward) 973; money paid etc. (expenditure) 809.    ready money etc. (cash) 800; stake, remittance, installment.    payer, liquidator etc. 801.    pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead.    ... show more

Roget 973: reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon^†, reguerdon^†; price.    [payment for damage or debt] indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo.    salvage, perquisite; vail etc. (donation) 784^†.    douceur [Fr.], bribe; hush money, smart money^†; blackmail, extortion; carcelage^†; solatium^†.    allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta^†, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi^†, dustoori^†; mileage.    crown etc. (decoration of honor) 877.    ... show more

Dutch: wedde, honorarium, arbeidsinkomen, arbeidsloon, bezoldiging, gage, loon, remuneratie, salaris, traktement
Polish: uposażenie, wypłata, pobory, płaca, pensja

The act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses.

Dutch: beloning, honorering