reward
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
something given or received in return or recompense for service, merit, hardship, etc.
to recompense or requite (a person or animal) for service, merit, achievement, etc.
to make return for or requite (service, merit, etc.); recompense.
Origin of reward
1synonym study For reward
Other words for reward
Other words from reward
- re·ward·a·ble, adjective
- re·ward·a·ble·ness, noun
- re·ward·a·bly, adverb
- re·ward·er, noun
- re·ward·less, adjective
- mis·re·ward, verb (used with object)
- o·ver·re·ward, verb
- su·per·re·ward, verb (used with object), noun
- un·re·ward·a·ble, adjective
- un·re·ward·ed, adjective
- well-re·ward·ed, adjective
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How to use reward in a sentence
“It’s a task that we do, and he gets a reward when he gets there,” Kinney said.
A teen with autism lost motivation for his walks to the post office. So strangers are sending cards to his P.O. Box. | Sydney Page | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostMoreover, neural impulse firing in VTA neurons was reduced, and they released less dopamine, showing that these genetic changes were indeed affecting the brain’s reward circuit operation.
The Epigenetic Secrets Behind Dopamine, Drug Addiction and Depression | R. Douglas Fields | October 27, 2020 | Quanta MagazineEven though the average annual salary in Mexico is $28,316, a reward of $10 million is not nearly enough unless someone has figured out how to spend money when they’re dead.
“While it is too early to draw any conclusions, there have been no rewards for beats at all so far this earnings season,” BofA equities analysts wrote in an investor note yesterday.
Sorry, investors. Earnings ‘beats’ no longer move the markets | Bernhard Warner | October 20, 2020 | FortuneThe idea is that reward functions like those typically used in reinforcement learning narrow an AI’s focus.
Artificial general intelligence: Are we close, and does it even make sense to try? | Will Heaven | October 15, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Such works therefore are rewardable according to the distributive justice of the law of grace, by which we must be judged.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard Baxter
British Dictionary definitions for reward
/ (rɪˈwɔːd) /
something given or received in return for a deed or service rendered
a sum of money offered, esp for help in finding a criminal or for the return of lost or stolen property
profit or return
something received in return for good or evil; deserts
psychol any pleasant event that follows a response and therefore increases the likelihood of the response recurring in the future
(tr) to give (something) to (someone), esp in gratitude for a service rendered; recompense
Origin of reward
1Derived forms of reward
- rewardable, adjective
- rewarder, noun
- rewardless, adjective
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