stipendiary
adjective
receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
stipendiaries
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pluralof stipendiary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I confess I have stipendiaries; they are the poor of Christ's flock; a treasure which I am well used in amassing.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
When attacked and conquered by the Saxons, who originally had been called in as stipendiaries to their assistance, were they not brave?
From The Description of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
Each of the stipendiaries has discharged his obligation, and the Pope and Monsignori find that the Council has cost large sums, but think the money is well spent and will bring in abundant interest.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
The Clergy were, as we have seen, appointed universally under the direction of Government: they were also its direct stipendiaries; hence nothing could be more complete than their subjection to its pleasure.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Would it not be possible to appoint a certain proportion of stipendiaries, with ample salaries, to that body?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 by Various
