- a premium or reward, especially one offered by a government: There was a bounty on his head. Some states offer a bounty for dead coyotes.
- a generous gift.
- generosity in giving.
- generosity in giving to others; liberality
- a generous gift; something freely provided
- a payment made by a government, as, formerly, to a sailor on enlisting or to a soldier after a campaign
- any reward or premium
- a British naval ship commanded by Captain William Bligh, which was on a scientific voyage in 1789 between Tahiti and the West Indies when her crew mutinied
