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Hostess :: Hostess (n.) A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.

Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels..

Modus :: Modus (n.) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi..

Retribution :: Retribution (n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong..

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) The act or principle of compensating.

Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission..

Hire :: Hire (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay..

Livery :: Livery (n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery..

Boarder :: Boarder (n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind..

Recompensation :: Recompensation (n.) Recompense.

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

Amends :: Amends (n. sing. & pl.) Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors; meed; reward; stipulated payment for service performed; hire; pay; compensation; -- at present generally used in the plural. See Wages.

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

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

Atone :: Atone (v. i.) To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation, compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime..

Owe :: Owe (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate..

Compensative :: Compensative (a.) Affording compensation.

Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..

Weregild :: Weregild (n.) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer..

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