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bounty

noun award, benefaction, benevolence, bonus, boon, cadeau, conferment, emolument, favor, gift, grant, gratification, gratuity, guerdon, hand sel, largess, largitas, perquisite, pourboire, prize, reward, reward for service, tip, token, tribute
Associated concepts: bounty lands

BOUNTY. A sum of money or other thing, given, generally by' the government, to certain persons, for some service they have done or are about to do to the public. As bounty upon the culture of silk; the bounty given to an enlisted soldier; and the like. It differs from a reward, which is generally applied to particular cases; and from a payment, as there is no contract on the part of the receiver of the bounty.

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Alien Topel collected three bounties in very close matches on the one-loss side of the tournament chart by defeating Dolezal (7-5), Welsh (7-6), and Calderon (7-6).

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ICG also cited the views of an unidentified senior official of the Philippine National Police who said that the bounties were leading to undue focus in individuals at the expense of more carefully thought-through strategies.