rewardable

English

Etymology

From reward +‎ -able.

Adjective

rewardable (comparative more rewardable, superlative most rewardable)

1. Worthy of reward.

   rewardable person

   rewardable work

2. Capable of being rewarded.
   • 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:

     To which may be added this advantage, that the services of churchmen are rewardable upon the church's stock: no need to disimprove the royal banks to pay thanks to bishops.

Related terms

• rewardableness
• rewardably

References

• “rewardable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.