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gratuity
  1. An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
  2. Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
  3. Euphemistic form of bribe.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes, they are very generous and give the hall porter a pound coin as a gratuity.”
      “It also wants to lengthen the qualifying period for long-service leave and dump a gratuity entitlement.”
      “It was unanimously decided to give a gratuity to the Captain in acknowledgement of his services.”
gratification
  1. (countable) The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite
  2. (uncountable) A feeling of pleasure; satisfaction
  3. (countable) A reward; a gratuity.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “We have perused Dr. Smith's work with great gratification and can recommend it with confidence to our readers as being both interesting and instructive.”
      “When man, unmindful of his needs, seeks the gratification of his desires, he acts falsely and impurely.”
      “He did considerable services to the court party, and received, as a gratification, a handsome pension.”
greeting
  1. A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
  2. (uncountable) The action of the verb to greet.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Theresa will be greatly missed by her many friends and neighbours as she always had a kind word and a greeting for everyone.”
      “And I just realised I probably won't post again in 2001, so this is by way of being a New Year's greeting to all of you out there who read this.”
greeter
  1. A person who greets people on their arrival.
  2. (obsolete) One who weeps or mourns.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Welcome greeter, cocktail server, hors d'oeuvre passer, reception bus person, buffet runner, front server, back server, and exit usher.”
      “The doorman and greeter couldn't have been friendlier and arranged a guest list for us, unsolicited, at an equally pleasant members club nearby.”
      “She became a greeter after a work-related injury forced her to stop working as a cashier, she said.”
greets
  1. (demoscene) Greetings sent to other demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo.
greet
gratifiability
  1. The quality of being gratifiable.
grat
  1. (slang) A gratuity or tip.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A wild young un, as 'ull do noa honest work, but dreams the day long, or poaches the grat woods wi' young loons o' like stomach.”
      “It's no secret that Petit de Grat and Arichat, there's ill feelings there... There's a lack of cohesiveness as far as the communities getting together.”
      “The grantor creates the GRAT trust and transfers the business to the trust.”
gratitude
  1. The state of being grateful.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I can't afford to pay anything, but you'll have my eternal gratitude and maybe I could knit you something.”
      “I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy.”
      “It is with much gratitude that Psychiatric Times acknowledges Dr. Moffic for his assistance in planning and reviewing this special report.”
gratefulness
  1. The state of being grateful.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He, in turn, realized what she had done, and in the consequent warm surge of gratefulness that overwhelmed him, forgot his loose-worded tongue.”
      “If that gratefulness and happiness do not cool down, and if you are filled with them, it is not difficult to cultivate your heart-field.”
      “We saw enthusiasm and gratefulness and I believe, Commissioner, that development must be taken into account in all European Union policies.”
gratifier
  1. Someone who gratifies.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Secondly, agreement on many matters is a relatively cheap gratifier.”
      “Whatever the secret combination, there's a reason why this instant gratifier destroys diets.”
greetings
grats
  1. plural of grat.
gratifications
  1. plural of gratification
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I'm no slave to pleasure myself, but I know the gratifications of playing sport are as intense as any.”
      “The dependency is limited to such gratifications as he finds in their public visibility.”
      “He said that works of art creations are the imaginary gratifications of unconscious wishes.”
gratefulnesses
gratitudes
  1. plural of gratitude
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Chris and Colin stayed in the corner while all the others got to speak their gratitudes.”
      “I do these gratitudes when I'm starting to feel negative.”
      “And if we do without opinions and without federations official, we can never claim to have a real Championship of Europe or pretend for sponsors, helps and gratitudes that could offer us those organismes.”
gratifiers
gratuities
  1. plural of gratuity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These gratuities are voluntary rewards given from spectators who genuinely enjoyed the battle in the ring.”
      “The doctors accuse the college management of not paying gratuities, provident funds and other allowances.”
      “The other two are gratuities, and while one could argue both gratuities and platitudes are pleasantries, that doesn't make one the other.”
greeters
  1. plural of greeter
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many of them are baggers in grocery stores, greeters, doing janitorial work, volunteering in hospitals, delivering meals on wheels, etc.”
      “At the door, two greeters wished to know how I was doing and offered to help me find something.”
      “But the company has also made clear that keeping its stores union-free is as much a part of Wal-Mart culture as door greeters and blue aprons.”
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