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Manbote :: Manbote (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant)..

Geld :: Geld (n.) Money; tribute; compensation; ransom.

Wages :: Wages (n.) A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2..

Recompense :: Recompense (n.) An equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return..

Host :: Host (n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord..

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..

Hire :: Hire (n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money..

Salvage :: Salvage (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril.

Magbote :: Magbote (n.) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.

Husbandage :: Husbandage (n.) The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.

Board :: Board (v. i.) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel..

Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..

Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology..

Pittance :: Pittance (n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation..

Reparation :: Reparation (n.) The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity..

Broker :: Broker (v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own..

Bonus :: Bonus (n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation.

Requital :: Requital (n.) The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds..

Toll :: Toll (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

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