bounty

Money offered for catching or killing a particular person or animal.

• They offered a bounty for his capture.
• A bounty hunter found the missing criminal.
• The ranchers paid a bounty for every wolf killed.

How to use it: a bounty on someone/something (The government placed a bounty on the escaped prisoner.)

Similar words: reward

Common phrases: bounty hunter, bounty on someone, claim a bounty

A reward given for doing something, especially by a government or other official organization.

• The government offered a bounty for useful information.
• Researchers received a bounty for each confirmed discovery.
• The scheme pays a bounty to successful recruits.

How to use it: a bounty for doing something (The town offered a bounty for finding the missing documents.)

Similar words: reward, payment

Common phrases: government bounty, bounty for something, receive a bounty

Something given in large amounts or as a generous gift.

• We shared the garden’s bounty.
• The baskets held the bounty of the autumn harvest.
• She received their bounty with quiet gratitude.

Similar words: gift, offering

Common phrases: nature’s bounty, summer’s bounty, share the bounty

The willingness to give others a great deal, or an act of giving generously.

• The poor benefited from her bounty.
• His bounty supported families throughout the winter.
• They remembered the king’s acts of bounty.

Similar words: generosity, liberality

Opposites: stinginess

Common phrases: royal bounty, someone’s bounty, acts of bounty