rewarding

UK: /rɪˈwɔː^rdɪŋ/ US: /rɪˈwɔrdɪŋ/ ,(ri wôr′ding)

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re•ward•ing /rɪˈwɔrdɪŋ/   adj. 

1. giving or providing a reward:
   a rewarding experience; a rewarding occupation.

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re•ward•ing  (ri wôr′ding), adj. 

1. affording satisfaction, valuable experience, or the like;
   worthwhile.
2. affording financial or material gain;
   profitable.

• reward + -ing² 1690–1700

re•ward′ing•ly, adv. 

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rewarding / rɪˈwɔːdɪŋ/ adjective

1. giving personal satisfaction; gratifying

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re•ward /rɪˈwɔrd/   n. 

1. money offered for the finding or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost property, etc.:
   [countable] Do you suppose we'll get a reward for turning in this wallet?
2. something given or received for services done, for doing something of merit, etc.:
   [countable] Seeing his children succeed was the most important reward in his life.
   [uncountable] There is not much financial reward in teaching.

v. [~ + object]

3. to give a reward to (a person or animal) for service, merit, etc.:
   The dog's owner rewarded it with a biscuit.

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re•ward  (ri wôrd′), n. 

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.

v.t. 

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

• Anglo-French, Old North French, variant of Old French reguard, derivative of reguarder; see regard
• Old North French rewarder to look at, variant of Old French reguarder; (noun, nominal) Middle English: origin, originally, regard
• (verb, verbal) Middle English rewarden origin, originally, to regard 1275–1325

re•ward′a•ble, adj. 
re•ward′a•ble•ness, n. 
re•ward′a•bly, adv. 
re•ward′er, n. 
re•ward′less, adj. 
Synonyms

• 2. desert, pay, remuneration; requital; bounty, premium, bonus.
  Reward, prize, recompense imply something given in return for good. A reward is something given or done in return for good (or, more rarely, evil) received; it may refer to something abstract or concrete:
  a $50 reward; Virtue is its own reward.
  Prize refers to something concrete offered as a reward of merit, or to be contested for and given to the winner:
  to win a prize for an essay.
  A recompense is something given or done, whether as reward or punishment, for acts performed, services rendered, etc.; or it may be something given in compensation for loss or injury suffered, etc.:
  Renown was his principal recompense for years of hard work.
• 3. compensate, pay, remunerate.

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reward / rɪˈwɔːd/ noun

1. something given or received in return for a deed or service rendered
2. a sum of money offered, esp for help in finding a criminal or for the return of lost or stolen property
3. profit or return
4. something received in return for good or evil; deserts

verb

1. (transitive) to give (something) to (someone), esp in gratitude for a service rendered; recompense

Etymology: 14th Century: from Old Norman French rewarder to regard, from re- + warder to care for, guard, of Germanic origin; see ward

reˈwardless adjective