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Remuneration vs Pelf - What's the difference?

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Remuneration is a related term of pelf.


As nouns the difference between remuneration and pelf

is that remuneration is pay; remuneration while pelf is money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre).

remuneration

English

(wikipedia remuneration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something given in exchange for goods or services rendered.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1885) , author=H. Rider Haggard , title=King Solomon's Mines , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Mr. Quatermain,” said the former, “I am well off, and I am bent upon this business. You may put the remuneration for your services at whatever figure you like in reason, and it shall be paid over to you before we start. Moreover, I will arrange in the event of anything untoward happening to us or to you, that your son shall be suitably provided for. You will see from this offer how necessary I think your presence. Also if by chance we should reach this place, and find diamonds, they shall belong to you and Good equally. I do not want them. But of course that promise is worth nothing at all, though the same thing would apply to any ivory we might get. You may pretty well make your own terms with me, Mr. Quatermain; and of course I shall pay all expenses.”}}
  • A payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.
  • A recompense for a loss; compensation.

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    pelf

    English

    Noun

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  • money; riches; gain; especially when dishonestly acquired (compare lucre)
  • * 1906 , Frederick Tatham, Life of Blake'' in Archibald George Blomefield Russell (ed.), ''The Letters of William Blake :
    • But, sighing after his fancies and visionary pursuits, he rebelled and fled fifty miles away for refuge from the lace caps and powdered wigs of his priggish sitters, and resumed his quaint dreams and immeasurable phantasies, never more to forsake them for pelf and portraiture.
  • * February 20, 2000 , Nick Cohen, Without prejudice , The Observer:
    • . . . a master manipulator who will twist and dodge around the clock to keep the privileges of power and pelf .
  • * July 20, 1997 , Harriet P. Gross, Author roots her stories in Vietnam War , Dallas Morning News:
    • She writes about those she might have known first-hand: teenage girls cowering in bunkers . . . friends making promises they can never keep . . . rich folk fattened on wartime pelf , poor folk surviving by wit alone.
  • * April 27, 1987 , Ford S. Worthy, You're Probably Working Too Hard , Fortune:
    • In advertising, show business, and journalism, people work themselves to the nub for glitz and glory more than for pelf .
  • * October 1968 , Nicholas von Hoffman, The Class of '43 Is Puzzled , The Atlantic:
    • Some of the rich classmates were keeping their pelf to themselves.