n. 1 award, favour, recompense, compensation, return, payment, pay, requital For your good deeds you will have to seek your reward in heaven; dishonesty is recompensed here on earth 2 prize, award, tribute, honour, Literary guerdon The Victoria Cross was instituted as a reward for military valour in 1856 3 retribution, punishment, just deserts, Colloq comeuppance Hanging was the reward of treason
v. 4 recompense, compensate, pay, repay, remunerate, redress, requite, make (something or it) worth someone's while Only if they reward him will Fuller give information leading to the capture of the thief