Vocabulary
Remuneration
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
money paid for work or a service.
Urdu meaning
معاوضہ، تنخواہ، مشاہرہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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At a time when other states are expanding parental leave, mandating equal remuneration and dismantling job restrictions, stagnation has its own cost.
Dawn Editorials —
Rights on paper
— 2026-02-26
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They cook, clean, tend livestock, and look after children, the elderly, and the sick often without rest, remuneration, or recognition.
Dawn Editorials —
Unseen work
— 2025-11-03
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Pakistan ratified the ILO`s Equal Remuneration Convention in 2001 and yet remains among the countries with the widest gender pay gaps in the region.
Dawn Editorials —
Economic exclusion
— 2025-07-18
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In one instance, the president/CEO of a bank in this impoverished nation took home an exgratia payment of Rs1.057bn and cash bonus of Rs163.6 million, in addition to fixed remuneration of Rs98.1m and in-kind benefits in 2024.
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A recipe for economic growth
— 2025-04-07
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We should not rule out the possibility that the most talented from the present top universities may drift towards the new set-up with higher remuneration and facilities, with matters ending up as a zero sum game for the country as a whole.
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Alternative to new varsity
— 2025-03-22
Synonyms
payment, salary, pay, wages; fee(s), earnings, stipend, honorarium, emolument(s),
Antonyms
nonpayment, underpayment
Curator example
“they work in excess of their contracted hours for no additional remuneration”
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