reward
/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/ noun B1- Something of value given in return for an act. · For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.
- A prize promised for a certain deed or catch · The rewards for bringing in badly wanted criminals are printed on 'dead or alive' posters.
- one's place in heaven; God's judgment in the afterlife; death
- The result of an action, whether good or bad. · Is this the reward I get for telling the truth: to be put in jail?
Plural rewards
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So you see that virtue was its own reward.
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
That, she felt, would be a sweet reward indeed for all her hard work and patient grubbing among unimaginative equations and conjugations.
On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, “If so great a reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded, if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?” The Ape quickly turned to him.
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