Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Jul. 2013
A reward It can be a award, a compensation wave remuneration given to someone for having won a contest, for having rendered a special service, or for having performed a task, among other options.
Award, compensation, remuneration given to someone for having won something, rendered a service or done a task
Mostly, we use this word to refer to a incentive offered to someone, or a general public, to collaborate in an action or event.
Economic incentive given to those who collaborate in solving a crime, a disappearance ...
For example, when a person disappears, is lost, it is common for his relatives to offer those who provide information about his whereabouts a reward, usually money.
Something similar is also done when the person who disappears or is lost is the pet of a family.
In the scope of JusticeLikewise, it is common for succulent rewards of money to be offered to those who collaborate in the clarification of a high-profile case or for those who provide information on the whereabouts of a dangerous offender.
As we indicated above, the reward almost always involves hard cash, although they can also offer other goods or issues that people may be precious, such as: a house, a valuable object, a job, among others.
Many times these offers of public rewards that come from the state and that are made through campaigns in the media of communication They are very useful when it comes to finding a criminal with an arrest warrant.
Some accomplice, or an unrelated person who knows her whereabouts, are usually the main discoverers of these, who Encouraged by the promised reward money, they secretly alert the police so they can proceed with the capture.
People who provide reliable data and who allow progress in the discovery of the offender or hard evidence of an offense are also usually rewarded.
The term is also synonymous with other widely used concepts such as: payment, reward and gratification.
Reward the action of someone or an animal
On the other hand, the reward may appear with the intention of rewarding an individual for some commendable action that he has carried out.
That is, he performs a heroic action spontaneously without expecting anything in return and then someone decides to reward him for it.
But in addition to people, it is very common for animals to be rewarded, especially domestic ones, when they perform a prescribed action, or behave well in a situation.
The usual thing is that they are rewarded with food or with a caress and congratulations that will have the mission of warning the animal that what he did was very good, for him to associate it with that reward, and then repeat the action.
Compensation received after suffering economic, moral or labor damage
He too suffering from material, labor or economic damage, can give way to the perception of a reward.
For example, a neighbor sets fire to part of our house due to his negligent actions, while this act can be denounced before the court so that it intervenes and thus achieve a sentence that forces the neighbor to compensate us for the damage done.
This sense of the word is used as a synonym for compensation.
Normally the reward or compensation received is economic and occurs after a court ruling that orders the person or company that caused the damage, to repair it, giving the injured party a certain amount of money or any other matter that it determines to be appropriate to compensate the damage produced.
In the labor field, it is very common to award compensation when an employee is fired by a company without a solid cause.
If the employee sues it and it is proven that lack of cause, surely, he will obtain a ruling in favor.
Meanwhile, the amount of money that is usually established is linked to his salary and the years worked.
On the other hand, labor mistreatment or moral damages caused to a person, if they can be proven, also require compensation.
And if the damage is economic, experts and specialists are usually summoned to evaluate and rule on the economic amount of the damage.
The concept that is opposed to that of reward is that of punishment, because it just refers a sanction, a shame that is imposed on a person for not corresponding in an action or request that is made or for not carrying out an activity.
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