reward
noun
a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Even if we don’t find the man, our voyage will not have been useless, and Heaven will have rewarded us.”
From The Mysterious Island by Stephen W. White