Term: merit pay: extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers)
Candidate hypernym: wage: something that remunerates → 1
Candidate hypernym: etiquette: rules governing socially acceptable behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: investment: outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism → 0
Candidate hypernym: soil horizon: a layer in a soil profile → 0
Candidate hypernym: capric acid: a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats → 0
Candidate hypernym: economic geology: the branch of geology that deals with economically valuable geological materials → 0
Candidate hypernym: fisher: large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal → 0
Candidate hypernym: sentience: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; - Richard Eberhart → 0
Candidate hypernym: recipient: a person who receives something → 0
Candidate hypernym: caraway seed bread: bread containing caraway seeds → 0
Candidate hypernym: maximization: the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function → 0