bounty

prime, récompense

Somme offerte pour capturer ou tuer une personne ou un animal en particulier.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : a bounty on someone/something (The government placed a bounty on the escaped prisoner.)

Synonymes : reward

Expressions courantes : bounty hunter, bounty on someone, claim a bounty

prime, récompense

Récompense donnée pour une action, notamment par un gouvernement ou un organisme officiel.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : a bounty for doing something (The town offered a bounty for finding the missing documents.)

Synonymes : reward, payment

Expressions courantes : government bounty, bounty for something, receive a bounty

don, bienfait

Chose offerte en abondance ou comme cadeau généreux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : gift, offering

Expressions courantes : nature’s bounty, summer’s bounty, share the bounty

générosité

Volonté de donner beaucoup aux autres, ou geste généreux.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : generosity, liberality

Contraires : stinginess

Expressions courantes : royal bounty, someone’s bounty, acts of bounty