bounty

recompensa

Dinero que se ofrece por capturar o matar a una persona o animal determinados.

En inglés sencillo: Money offered for catching or killing a particular person or animal.

• They offered a bounty for his capture.
• A bounty hunter found the missing criminal.
• The ranchers paid a bounty for every wolf killed.

Cómo se usa: a bounty on someone/something (The government placed a bounty on the escaped prisoner.)

Sinónimos: reward

Expresiones frecuentes: bounty hunter, bounty on someone, claim a bounty

recompensa, prima

Recompensa por hacer algo, especialmente la que da un gobierno u otra organización oficial.

En inglés sencillo: A reward given for doing something, especially by a government or other official organization.

• The government offered a bounty for useful information.
• Researchers received a bounty for each confirmed discovery.
• The scheme pays a bounty to successful recruits.

Cómo se usa: a bounty for doing something (The town offered a bounty for finding the missing documents.)

Sinónimos: reward, payment

Expresiones frecuentes: government bounty, bounty for something, receive a bounty

dádiva, don

Algo que se da en abundancia o como regalo generoso.

En inglés sencillo: Something given in large amounts or as a generous gift.

• We shared the garden’s bounty.
• The baskets held the bounty of the autumn harvest.
• She received their bounty with quiet gratitude.

Sinónimos: gift, offering

Expresiones frecuentes: nature’s bounty, summer’s bounty, share the bounty

generosidad, liberalidad

Disposición a dar mucho a los demás, o acto de dar con generosidad.

En inglés sencillo: The willingness to give others a great deal, or an act of giving generously.

• The poor benefited from her bounty.
• His bounty supported families throughout the winter.
• They remembered the king’s acts of bounty.

Sinónimos: generosity, liberality

Antónimos: stinginess

Expresiones frecuentes: royal bounty, someone’s bounty, acts of bounty