emolument
[ih-mol-yuh-muh nt]
noun
profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages.
Origin of emolument
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Historical Examples of emolument
The Emperor was not only the fountain of all honor, but of all emolument and place.
Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II)Charles James Lever
They were surprised to find that the emolument was so trifling.
BruinMayne Reid
Usually they are lawyers who have won preferment and emolument.
The American EmpireScott Nearing
The work will be no joke, but the emolument is too tempting to resist.
The Letters of Charles DickensCharles Dickens
Finally all salaries were henceforth to be in lieu of every emolument.
The History of the British Post OfficeJoseph Clarence Hemmeon
emolument
noun
Word Origin for emolument
C15: from Latin ēmolumentum benefit; originally, fee paid to a miller, from ēmolere, from molere to grind
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