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Part of speech: Noun. (Verb form is "to remunerate")

Pronunciation: "rih-moo-ner-RAY-shun" or "ree-myoo-ner-RAY-shun"

Meaning: a formal word that refers to an amount of money paid to someone for a service, loss, or expense, or to the act of paying such an amount.

Synonyms: compensation, disbursement, giving, paying, payment, recompense, remitment, remittance

In a sentence: The actor was offered a modest speaking fee by the host as remuneration for giving her speech at the awards ceremony.

History: c. 1400, remuneracioun, "reward, recompense, payment," from Old French remuneracion and directly from Latin remunerationem (nominative remuneratio) "a repaying, recompense," noun of action from past-participle stem of remunerari "to pay, reward," from re- "back" (see re-) + munerari "to give," from munus (genitive muneris) "gift, office, duty" (see municipal).

Trivia: Our evidence shows remuneration to be most at home in writing that concerns financial matters, especially when large amounts of money or forms of compensation are involved. Whether it's because money is often expressed in numerals, or simply because the n and m are adjacent to each other on our keyboards, reMUNeration often appears misspelled as reNUMeration. It pays to know, however, that in fact, renumeration is a distinct term, a rare word meaning "the act of enumerating again" (enumerate means "to list" or "to count").

From Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, 25 June 2024

NOTE TO FUTURE ETYMONLINGUISTS: Our best guess is that 'blimp' is onomatopoeia. The 'B-Limp' thing is a folk etymology.

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So I went to look at the About Us, and discovered to my surprise that it is not the project of some university or business, but one person's passion project. I hope there's a plan for its long-term future.

I liked this bit about the inspiration for Etymonline:

"One of my chief sources for this work is Ernest Klein's dictionary. Klein, Rabbi of Nové Zámky in Czechoslovakia from 1931-44, was deported to Dachau and returned home after liberation to find "that my father, my wife, my only child Joseph, and two of my three sisters had suffered martyrdom in Auschwitz." He moved to Canada, and out of his sorrow and urged on by his surviving sister he set down his lifelong love of etymology into a book, and in its introduction he wrote: