It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 25.

Today's word of the day for June 25th.

Today's word is remuneration, spelled R-E-M-U-N-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-N-E-T-I-O-N, remuneration is a noun. It's a formal word that refers to an amount of money paid to someone for a service, loss, or expense,

or to the act of paying such an amount. It's synonymous with the words recompense and pay.

Here's the word used in a sentence from Wired.

Workers are paid per task with remuneration ranging from assent to a few dollars,

although the upper end is considered something of a rare gem, workers say.

Our evidence shows that the word remuneration is most at home in writing that concerns

financial matters, especially when large amounts of money or forms of compensation are involved.

Whether it's because money is often expressed in numerals, simply because the n and m are adjacent to each other on our keyboards

remuneration often appears misspelled as renumeration.

It pays to know, however, that in fact,

renumeration is a distinct term, a rare word, meaning the act of enumerating

again. Inumerate means to list or to count.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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