after-reward

noun

A reward that follows or which comes after

Meanings

nounafter-reward (plural after-rewards)

plural after-rewards · alternative afterreward · alternative after reward

  1. A reward that follows or which comes after

    What is the after-reward for taking pains in the act of seeing?

    2013, Charlotte Mason, Home Education
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    The Christian acted distinctly for a selfish end — “pro remedio minus,” the heathen may often have acted (as M. Allard unfairly assumes that he always did) from vanity or caprice, but he surely sometimes acted from a sense of right without hope of afterreward.

    1876, The Pall Mall Budget

    After 18 months' industrial training, with daily secular and religious instruction, inmates are sent to service, with an adequate outfit, and obtain certain after rewards and gratuities, if deserved, by good conduct in their situations.

    1890, The Charities Register and Digest, page 523

    It is as if he said: the glory is not an external afterreward of the shame; the glory is in the shame; the life in the death.

    1902, Queen's Quarterly, volumes 9-10, page 44

    This system works at any drugstore chain. Each offers different free or cheap after-rewards items every week, so keep rolling your rewards to pick up different HBA (health-and-beauty aisle) items all the time.

    2012, Rachel Singer Gordon, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

Origin

  1. Middle Englishafter-reward
  2. Englishafter-reward

From Middle English after-reward, equivalent to after- + reward.

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