I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extrinsic rewards (= no extra money etc )
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Staff who complete extra qualifications receive no extrinsic rewards .
reap the benefit/reward/profit (of sth)
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Those who do take risks often reap the rewards.
sb's patience is rewarded (= they get what they were hoping and waiting to get )
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After two hours, their patience was rewarded and they saw the bird.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Thus those who have substantial property holdings will receive the highest economic rewards and enjoy superior life chances.
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The primary reason for the adoption of this life-style is the attitude to the economic rewards of work.
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However, many occupations which afford little prestige or economic reward can be seen as vital to society.
financial
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Prizes will be in the form of gifts or vouchers - there will not be any direct financial rewards .
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In both companies the salespeople were commissioned; hence, their financial rewards were determined primarily by companywide compensation policies.
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It was filthy work, but full of atavistic excitement and the promise of financial reward .
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Originally, Nobel thought that the financial reward accompanying the Prize would make the winner independent.
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King James offered financial rewards to persuade people to plant mulberries to feed his imported silkworms.
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Not just the obvious problem: preoccupation with the financial rewards to the neglect of your research.
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The hopes of financial reward turn to fear of disaster.
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Proper financial reward should go to those who undertake this important task.
great
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That remains devoted to status, sustenance of our image, and acceptance as the great reward for all our efforts!
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I mentioned earlier that the more work the greater the rewards .
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The Broncos provide a match-up with great reward attached to it.
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Ostpolitik brought great rewards for Brandt.
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The resulting effort and ingenuity would bring greater production and greater resulting rewards for all.
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Hell, it even reaps great rewards for some.
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These enormous risks were offset by no great reward .
high
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Thus those who have substantial property holdings will receive the highest economic rewards and enjoy superior life chances.
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This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.
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By controlling supply, professionals can maintain a high demand for their services and so gain high rewards .
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This serves to justify high occupational rewards .
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We accept that a high risk should have a high reward even though this is not always the case in the market place.
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Again, we are reminded too late that the risks associated with high short-term rewards are often unacceptable for a public company.
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They claim that doctors receive higher rewards than teachers because they are more fully professionalized.
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On past experience it seldom brings high added reward unless the benefits of synergy are there.
just
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To see a job completed to the best of your ability and to the satisfaction of the customer is just reward .
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It would be just reward for their recent form, and no-one would begrudge them the honour.
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A handsome second-term majority will be his just reward .
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A medal of honour was his just reward .
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So for all their efforts they got their just reward .
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For Edgar Bronfman and Ivan Straker, however, it would have been just reward for their assistance, to the race.
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If Beth had got her just rewards , Tyler Blacklock had carved himself a very different destiny.
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It features a well thought out line of play which reaped a just reward .
material
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Finally, the satisfaction of the job is regarded by sentimental observers as sufficient compensation for the lack of material rewards .
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Just as material rewards are disappearing, job security is barely a memory and company loyalty a psychic fossil.
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The bureaucracy enjoys more material rewards and privileges than other sectors of society.
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The data showed that information specialists' actions were often impelled not simply by material rewards or to avoid punishment.
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But to attempt to implement such principles in society as a whole will be disastrous unless people are seriously interested in material reward .
monetary
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Work itself may be a pleasure and the monetary reward may be of limited importance after a minimum income is gained.
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Later, her staff members became aware of the larger number of promotions and monetary rewards accorded to people in other groups.
potential
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Syngenta and Myriad joined forces and finished the job in 18 months, spurred by the potential commercial rewards .
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And the potential reward was a professional career.
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They either have to take too much of the risk themselves, or give away too much of their potential reward .
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Working hard is a personal objective, to obtain job satisfaction and potential rewards of career advancement.
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But the potential rewards will be tremendous.
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Whether a risk is worth running depends on an estimate of its magnitude in the light of the size of the potential reward .
rich
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We'd love to hear from you and there are some rich rewards .
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And this joy of discovery can prove among the richest of rewards .
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Plenty of steps, most of them with a rich reward for the climber, such as those that lead to the Lindenhof.
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Word spreads that the bridge company will pay a rich reward to the family of anyone who volunteers to be immured.
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Some charities with a high public profile, reap rich rewards , others find the competition far too stiff.
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Such mastery of basic drives may cost the ego something, but it also brings rich rewards .
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Those who can persuade potential benefactors that they have the ear of their party leaders can expect rich rewards in sponsorship money.
substantial
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Despite a substantial reward being offered, it was never recovered.
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A substantial reward is now being offered for its recovery.
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We are happy to offer a substantial reward for information which leads to the arrest of the guilty person or persons.
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Loss adjusters Tyler and Co. are offering a substantial reward for information leading to the recovery of the missing objects.
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Wanted posters offering a substantial reward failed to bring news of any sightings.
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There are substantial rewards for accommodation to the prevailing consensus.
tangible
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Extrinsic rewards Those tangible rewards that probably attract most of us into the workforce in the first place.
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It is also helpful to use tangible rewards .
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Most of the time they will not need a tangible reward like an extra sweet or a trip to the park.
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Winning also brings more tangible rewards .
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Many of the tangible rewards of diplomatic life changed little, at least in the seventeenth century.
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Teaching well takes time and often yields little tangible reward .
■ NOUN
system
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Further supporting this sense of group accountability and relationships is a reward system oriented more to teamwork than to individual work.
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Setting up a reward system for achievement of goals 6.
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If we wish to change the Effort Performance Reward equation to induce better performance then we should look to the reward system .
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The evaluation and reward systems recognized individual, not group performance. 9.
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One of the mistakes of the twentieth century was to standardize reward systems in terms of salaries.
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All societies can, if they choose, negate the tragedy by altering the reward system .
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As indicated later in this chapter, a strong vehicle for changing behaviour is a change in the reward system .
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This is the result of an educational system and reward system which emphasizes law and a variety of business and financial skills.
■ VERB
bring
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This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.
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Ostpolitik brought great rewards for Brandt.
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After all, success brings its own rewards: and demands.
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That kind of curriculum vitae brings a reward in terms of career advancement, with the inevitable monetary gains.
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Well done! % % Joining Forces Carefully managed co-operation can bring untold rewards .
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It is careful analysis and a clear direction that will bring rewards .
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On past experience it seldom brings high added reward unless the benefits of synergy are there.
deserve
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You have been so good to George and you deserve a little reward now that all the young people have come.
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This contract would specify what reasonable amount of progress is deserving of reward .
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Therefore, our distributors and employees deserved a reward for their success.
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People who have overcome extreme barriers deserve a reward and this is the reward I want.
expect
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So he learnt that if he gave a little he could expect a reward .
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But she expected some reward in this life, too.
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Quality expects rewards , experience makes comparisons.
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She lay in wait for pain, expecting no rewards from people, and this made her a hopelessly disconcerting friend.
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If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return.
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The duppy can only operate at night and will expect a reward on returning to its grave.
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Not only that but we expect that reward to be a fair and just one.
gain
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By controlling supply, professionals can maintain a high demand for their services and so gain high rewards .
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The different birds offer a clue to the path the children must follow to gain their reward .
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In joint athletics, girls subvert the masculinity of the weaker or slow-developing boys without gaining significant athletic reward themselves.
give
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The parents were therefore giving a reward contingent upon Joanne's production of the undesirable behaviours.
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Applaud them for their victories and they, in turn, will give you the rewards and recognition that you need.
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Correctly, they made a big production out of giving the reward .
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The grateful citizens gave him as a reward the hand of the Princess Megara.
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This includes any extra days given as a reward for long service.
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You may wish to inform a specialist group of people, or give them a reward or an incentive.
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Earlier writers had given hints of the rewards that lay in store for those who followed this intellectual path.
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A third and important principle is that you should give yourself plenty of reward for your success.
offer
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Those whose goal priorities emphasize security and recognition, for example, will be attracted to jobs offering those rewards .
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Once food becomes loaded with emotional meaning, offered as a reward or withheld as punishment, those cues get skewed.
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Suppose it offers a large reward for some one's arrest.
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If you could get some company downtown to offer a reward after we have read a dozen books...
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They have an artists impressions of the man, and are offering a reward of several thousand pounds for his capture.
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The Girl Scouts now offer a reward for technical achievement, a new computer badge.
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King James offered financial rewards to persuade people to plant mulberries to feed his imported silkworms.
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A globalized economy offers spectacular rewards to the skillful, but increasingly penalizes those without education.
provide
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Conversely an admiring glance, a word of praise or an encouraging smile provide rewards for conformity to social norms.
reap
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He did not commit suicide because he had no patent and had reaped no rewards .
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In a defined benefit plan, therefore, you bear the investment risk; however, you also reap the investment rewards .
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In this new phase, many couples reap the rewards of all their efforts of the preceding years.
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Near the end of 1972, both Park and Kim reaped some personal rewards from their headline-making interaction.
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But women aren't the only ones to reap the rewards of such praise.
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Shareholders, however, are reaping big rewards .
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If active steps are taken to attract the custom of older people, their response will reap its own rewards .
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The student who works harder reaps many rewards and is thus encouraged to continue good efforts.
receive
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Thus those who have substantial property holdings will receive the highest economic rewards and enjoy superior life chances.
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The good daughter behaves nicely, works hard, and receives as her reward a rain of gold coins.
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The rats eventually managed to press the lever very quickly after being placed in the box, in order to receive their reward .
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It is therefore good human relations to make sure that the other party in any important relationship continues to receive appropriate rewards .
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They claim that doctors receive higher rewards than teachers because they are more fully professionalized.
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Those who snitch can receive commendations and rewards of up to $ 500.
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Furthermore, the accomplished player must be able to produce golf of an exceptional quality to receive the reward for his skills.
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It is a matter of great concern that employees should receive proper rewards for working on Sundays.
seek
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Then he turned to seek his reward: a banquet cooked by Auguste Didier.
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Entrepreneurial governments seek to change these rewards and incentives.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
richly rewarding
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was given Archima's hand in marriage as a reward for his bravery.
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She got no reward for all the hard work she did.
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The parents of the missing boy are offering a reward of £10,000.
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The police say there is a $50,000 reward for any information that helps them find the killer.
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They're offering a reward for information on the killer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But for many the intangible rewards of setting a new course for themselves and their company were greater.
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Clients equate reward potential with risk, a fact dealers exploit, but the two may not coexist proportionately.
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It measures the degree of consensus which exists, if any, over how rewards are distributed in society.
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Such rewards are not necessarily about financial payments or promotion.
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The winner got a bottle of barbecue sauce and that most time-honored reward of childhood, a gold star.
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Traditional rewards for work are material: promotions with in-creased pay, bonuses, stock options, and generous benefit packages.
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You have been so good to George and you deserve a little reward now that all the young people have come.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
handsomely
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However, their bravery was handsomely rewarded as they collected more than £1,600.
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And does anyone doubt that the fleeing illegal immigrants will be rewarded handsomely ?
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Those who were optimistic about stocks were rewarded handsomely .
well
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Our effort was well rewarded all the way by the increasingly open views of lush patchwork fields in the unfolding valleys beyond.
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Believers in Wray, those who have kept the faith through the long dry spell, are at last well rewarded .
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And if they do, will they feel their times has been well rewarded ?
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He rose up the executive ranks and was well rewarded .
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If you perform extraordinarily well you could be extraordinarily well rewarded .
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In a world where the competition for capital is intense, those who dispose of it are certain to be well rewarded .
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Such talent as Kim had should be harnessed, such men rewarded well , or destroyed, lest they destroy you.
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The Policing Context For all these valuable services, the police have been well rewarded .
■ NOUN
behavior
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Do you plan to reward her behavior by supporting her appointment?
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In essence, you are rewarding the behavior , so he is even more likely to repeat it.
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And when the behavior ceases to be rewarding , the behavior itself ceases.
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Our economic system has the flexibility to reward positive behavior by giving parents a claim on the results.
behaviour
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The second type of positive interaction that parents can be taught is how to reward good behaviour .
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It may happen that the child is so naughty that it ends up never being rewarded for the desirable behaviour .
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Their primary goal is managerial power, i.e. the opportunity to influence, control and reward the behaviour of subordinates.
effort
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That made people feel that their least effort was rewarded and they looked forward to participating in the next organizational improvement.
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But over the years a few prospectors kept up the search on the farm, and their efforts were richly rewarded .
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Our effort was well rewarded all the way by the increasingly open views of lush patchwork fields in the unfolding valleys beyond.
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The pair's efforts were rewarded when they won awards in a United Kingdom enterprise scheme. 10.
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The Civil Engineering Department have toiled long and hard with the exit from Keighley and soon their efforts should be rewarded .
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Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report.
job
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There are no short cuts to finding a satisfying and rewarding position; successful job hunting is hard work.
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Others are military hardware enthusiasts whose zest for detail has been rewarded with a high-profile job .
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He was a hustling precinct worker and brought out the vote, so he was rewarded with a patronage job .
loyalty
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Is this how he rewards the loyalty of the most gifted player of the last decade, arguably ever?
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I know how it amuses him to reward loyalty by handfuls; how he likes to make a test of friends.
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Not surprisingly, they were rewarded by deep loyalty and an overriding will to succeed.
market
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Greenspan and the bond market were rewarding him with lower interest rates.
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The job market rewards those with more occupational skills.
performance
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Meaningful work is built upon the principle of rewarding performance at every level.
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Although many companies profess to want to reward performance instead of face time, many report difficulties doing so.
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Government managers have precious little direct authority over their subordinates, either to reward performance or punish failure.
service
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When democracy returned, the chairmanship was used to reward political services and to advance careers.
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Reagan clung to the belief that he was not paying ransom but merely rewarding an intermediary for services rendered.
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He rewarded good service generously but not extravagantly.
work
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A more measured response is not to abandon welfare but to shift the carrots: make welfare reward work .
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Many companies do so because smart managers know the importance of rewarding good work and inspiring even better efforts.
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In the meantime, however, there was rewarding work for women like herself in the household of the faith.
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Nature experiments through natural selection: the evolutionary process rewards new adaptations that work .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How can I reward your kindness?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they also reward or punish behavior: The deduction for charitable contributions underwrites generosity.
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He shoved the nose down to sixty degrees and was rewarded with a perfect view of the ruined Hurricane.
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It is only that I feel I may make a new friend and be rewarded with company.
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Often they have to choose between doing something that is meaningful for them and something that is less rewarding but pays better.
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Polluters will pay and conservers will be rewarded.
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Successful assembly, requiring persistence but little knowledge, is rewarded with a brief come-to-life scene and a printable certificate.
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The efficient and the progressive were rewarded with survival and growth.
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There were rewarding aspects to being an editor, though.