Stipend
['staɪpend] or ['staɪpɛnd]
Definition
(noun.) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose.
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Definition
(n.) Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
(v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Salary, wages, allowance, pay, hire, compensation, remuneration.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SPUR_and_UBOE]
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Definition
n. a salary paid for services esp. to a clergyman in Scotland: settled pay.—adj. Stipend′iary receiving stipend.—n. one who performs services for a salary esp. a paid magistrate.—v.t. Stipen′diate to provide with a salary.
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Examples
- BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- We are forgetting business, ma'am,' said the beadle; 'here is your porochial stipend for the month. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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