REWARDING | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of rewarding in English rewardingadjective uk /rɪˈwɔː.dɪŋ/ us /rɪˈwɔːr.dɪŋ/ Add to word list Add to word list giving a reward, especially by making you feel satisfied that you have done something important or useful, or done something well: Is it a rewarding job? Textbook writing can be an intellectually and financially rewarding activity. Causing pleasure

• agreeable
• agreeableness
• agreeably
• all things to all people idiom
• attractive
• delightfully
• distraction
• diverting
• divertingly
• do someone's heart good idiom
• homey
• indulgent
• indulgently
• jovial
• jovially
• sensuous
• sensuously
• serendipitous
• sweeten
• swooning

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rewarding | American Dictionary

rewardingadjective us /rɪˈwɔr·dɪŋ/ Add to word list Add to word list satisfying or beneficial: a rewarding experience (Definition of rewarding from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

rewarding | Business English

rewardingadjective uk /rɪˈwɔːdɪŋ/ us Add to word list Add to word list providing a lot of money for a person, company, or organization: Investment bankers should give honest — not just financially rewarding — advice. Cautious economic manoeuvring has made the stock market safer but less rewarding something that is rewarding gives you a feeling of satisfaction and pleasure: a rewarding career/job/rolemore/less/the most rewarding What is the most rewarding aspect of your work? (Definition of rewarding from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of rewarding?

Translations of rewarding

in Chinese (Traditional) 值得做的, 有意義的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 值得做的, 有意义的… See more in Spanish gratificante, gratificante [masculine-feminine, singular]… See more in Portuguese gratificante, recompensador… See more in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian karşılığını veren, ödüllendiren, tatmin edici… See more gratifiant/-ante, gratifiant, enrichissant… See more 報（むく）いる… See more de moeite waard… See more užitečný… See more tilfredsstillende… See more memuaskan… See more ซึ่งให้ผลตอบแทน… See more bổ ích… See more satysfakcjonujący, wdzięczny… See more givande… See more memuaskan… See more lohnend… See more givende, tilfredsstillende… See more вартий, корисний… See more Need a translator?

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