Tribute - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- payment by one nation for protection by another
- payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence (syn: protection)
Extra examples
The concert was a tribute to the musician.
Yellow ribbons were tied on trees as a tribute to the soldiers at war.
The country was forced to pay tribute.
The ruler paid a tribute every year.
The players wore black armbands as a tribute to their late teammate.
I'd like to pay tribute to (=praise and admire publicly) the party workers for all their hard work.
The book is a handsome tribute to a great poet.
...a tribute to the men and women who, as firefighters, peril their lives daily...
... the concert remained a remarkable tribute to Dylan's resilience and continued relevance.
A tribute to tenacity, the free ascent of Trango Tower was the fulfillment of a cowboy climber's dream.
I thought the memorial was a fitting tribute to the President.
The minister paid tribute to the work of the emergency services.
It was a tribute to her teaching methods that so many children passed the test.
...a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind...
It is a tribute to the tribunals that the technicality at the heart of the appellate process in these tribunals can and does coexist with the relative informality in atmosphere and with procedural flexibility.
Word forms
singular: tribute
plural: tributes
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