appearance money

noun

1. money paid by a promoter of an event to a particular celebrity in order to ensure that the celebrity takes part in the event

Example Sentences

Morikawa is the latest American player to play down the significance of the appearance money.

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In most seasons he either got outcoached, outrecruited, or put the team in outmatched situations to get appearance money.

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Now 17, she was ordered to forfeit “any titles, awards, medals, profits, prizes and appearance money” earned after her positive doping sample was collected.

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The players are also due to earn an additional $30,000 each in appearance money from FIFA.

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Most criticism of LIV Golf has focused on the noncompetitive, no-cut, 54-hole format with locked-in appearance money and grotesque purses.

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