REMUNERATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remunerative mean? 

• REMUNERATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective REMUNERATIVE has 2 senses:

1. for which money is paid

2. producing a sizeable profit

  Familiarity information: REMUNERATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REMUNERATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For which money is paid

Synonyms:

compensable; paying; remunerative; salaried; stipendiary

Context example:

stipendiary services

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

Derivation:

remunerate (make payment to; compensate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Producing a sizeable profit

Synonyms:

lucrative; moneymaking; remunerative

Context example:

a remunerative business

Similar:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Derivation:

remunerate (make payment to; compensate)

 Context examples 

Commission to the extent of two and ninepence in a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To have a full stomach, to doze lazily in the sunshine—such things were remuneration in full for his ardours and toils, while his ardours and tolls were in themselves self-remunerative.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection and the number of our depositors.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For corn, said Mrs. Micawber argumentatively, as I have repeatedly said to Mr. Micawber, may be gentlemanly, but it is not remunerative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is not an avocation of a remunerative description—in other words, it does not pay—and some temporary embarrassments of a pecuniary nature have been the consequence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It appears to me, that what Mr. Micawber has to do, in justice to himself, in justice to his family, and I will even go so far as to say in justice to society, by which he has been hitherto overlooked, is to advertise in all the papers; to describe himself plainly as so-and-so, with such and such qualifications and to put it thus: “Now employ me, on remunerative terms, and address, post-paid, to W. M., Post Office, Camden Town.””

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)