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
This is extremely difficult to pull off, but if you can do it—and teach other people to do it—the reward is tremendous.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in health | Rachel King | September 9, 2020 | FortuneIn this span of time, brands have had their quarterly digital marketing plans upended, but not without a unique opportunity to reap the rewards of an online shopping surge.
Move by move, game by game, an algorithm combines experience and value function to learn which actions bring greater rewards and improves its play, until eventually, it becomes an uncanny Breakout player.
DeepMind’s Newest AI Programs Itself to Make All the Right Decisions | Jason Dorrier | July 26, 2020 | Singularity HubThey have shown that if you observe another person receive a reward, like food or money, your brain activity is the same as if you were the one receiving the reward.
How the Brain Builds a Sense of Self From the People Around Us | Sam Ereira | July 17, 2020 | Singularity HubThere are plenty of unethical business practices that can reap huge rewards if you get away with them, not least because few of your competitors dare use them.
AI Behaving Badly: New Model Could Help AI Make More Ethical Choices | Edd Gent | July 6, 2020 | Singularity Hub
For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, reward Zone.
Their reward: what is possibly the most infuriating series finale of the new millennium.
The Biggest Bombs of 2014: ‘Sex Tape,’ Mariah Carey’s Vocals, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and More | Kevin Fallon | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStill images of each will be released today and a reward will be posted for information leading to their arrest.
The $50,000 reward means a weapon was brandished to either the customers or the employees.
When it comes to setting up a reward, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service considers “$50,000 commonplace.”
History gives them scant notice, and the Federal government has failed to reward them as they deserve.
The Courier of the Ozarks | Byron A. DunnOn the establishment of the Empire Berthier, like many another, received the reward for his faithfulness to Napoleon.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonEach has his "natural liberty," and each in his degree, great or small, receives his allotted reward.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockAnd a bitter reflection was it, that reward still came to him—still a fair return for time and strength expended.
When an article is written, the financial reward (and we may as well live as not) is a matter of certainty.
First Plays | A. A. Milne
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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