bounty

n 1: payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military syn premium

2: the property of copious abundance syn amplitude, bountifulness 3: generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely syn bounteousness 4: a ship of the British navy; in 1789 part of the crew mutineed against their commander William Bligh and set him afloat in an open boat syn H.M.S. Bounty

Source: WordNet. Princeton University