remunerate
verb (used with object)
to pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble, etc.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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The Prophecies of Isaiah would have made a small article in a review which … could cheerfully enough have remunerated him with a five-pound note.”
From Historical Essays by James Ford Rhodes