REMUNERATIVE Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

remunerative

adjective

ri-ˈmyü-nə-rə-tiv

Definition of remunerative

as in lucrative

yielding a profit made a highly remunerative investment that will end up paying my college tuition

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Recent Examples of remunerative This mundane enterprise turned out to be reasonably remunerative. — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2025 One of higher education’s unsung scandals is enrollment caps for the most remunerative majors, namely the most technical and scientific. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025 At the same time, a growing chorus of policy wonks and public officials, including yours truly, have argued that Americans shouldn’t have to buy a college degree in order to find remunerative employment. — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024 These hothouses draw an inexhaustible supply of idealistic pilgrims who’ve chosen to forego more stable and remunerative career paths in pursuit of the high-wire act that is a meaningful creative life. — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for remunerative

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Major financial firms like Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo stopped participating in the company’s lucrative rankings of wealth advisers for fear of being tarnished by association.

— Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
When Foxx exited for a lucrative ABC deal, the pair worked on the spinoffs Grady and Sanford Arms.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

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