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n. A gift, payment, declaration, or other acknowledgment of gratitude, respect, or admiration: put up a plaque as a tribute to his generosity.

n. Evidence attesting to some praiseworthy quality or characteristic: Winning the scholarship was a tribute to her hard work.

n. A payment in money or other valuables made by one ruler or nation to another in acknowledgment of submission or as the price of protection or security.

n. A tax imposed for such payment.

n. Any payment exacted for protection.

n. A payment or tax given by a feudal vassal to an overlord.

n. The obligation to make such a payment.

n. An acknowledgment of gratitude, respect or admiration; an accompanying gift.

n. A payment made by one nation to another in submission.

n. Extortion; protection money.

n. A payment made by a feudal vassal to his lord.

v. To pay as tribute.

n. An annual or stated sum of money or other valuable thing, paid by one ruler or nation to another, either as an acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.

n. A personal contribution, as of money, praise, service, etc., made in token of services rendered, or as that which is due or deserved.

n. A certain proportion of the ore raised, or of its value, given to the miner as his recompense.

verb-intransitive. To pay as tribute.

n. A stated sum of money or other valuable consideration paid by one prince or state to another in acknowledgment of submission, or as the price of peace, security, and protection, or by virtue of some treaty.

n. The state of being liable for such a payment; the obligation of contributing.

n. Formerly, that which was paid by a subject or a tenant to a sovereign or lord; a tax; rental.

n. See the quotation.

n. A contribution; an accretion.

n. A personal acknowledgment or offering; a mark of devotion, gratitude, or respect.

n. In mining, the proportion of ore or its value which a person doing tribute-work receives for his labor.

To pay as tribute.

To distribute; bestow; dispose.

n. payment by one nation for protection by another

n. something given or done as an expression of esteem

n. payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

"All the Strangers that dwelt in the land, were _tributaries_ to the Israelites -- required to pay an annual tribute to the government, either in money, or in public service, which was called a "_tribute of bond-service_;" in other words, all the Strangers were _national servants_, to the Israelites, and the same Hebrew word which is used to designate _individual_ servants, equally designates"

tributes   

payment    defrayal    defrayment    approval    commendation    extortion   

tribe    tribal   

tributed    tributing   

subsidy    contribution    compliment    tax   

contribute    distribute    redistribute   

contribution    homage    compliment    acknowledgment    reward    praise    gift    appreciation    testimony    token