Definitions for reward

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reward re·ward

Spelling: [ri-wawrd]

IPA: /rɪˈwɔrd/

Reward is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in reward (aderrw).

Definitions for reward

noun

1. a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
2. something given or received in return or recompense for service, merit, hardship, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to recompense or requite (a person or animal) for service, merit, achievement, etc.
2. to make return for or requite (service, merit, etc.); recompense.

Origin of reward

1275-1325; (v.) Middle English rewarden orig., to regard Old North French rewarder to look at, variant of Old French reguarder; (noun) Middle English: orig., regard Anglo-French, Old North Fr

Examples for reward

On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution.

It asserts that we have the right to choice of our own work and to the reward of our own toil.

For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, reward Zone.

And the great size of the reward was the very thing that kept him safe.

Still images of each will be released today and a reward will be posted for information leading to their arrest.

I asked him what reward the Helots had for bravery or virtue.

Their reward: what is possibly the most infuriating series finale of the new millennium.

Because they won't figure that any man would toss up that reward.

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.”