stipend
[stahy-pend]
- a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- fixed or regular pay; salary.
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Origin of stipend
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com1, 2. See pay1.
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Examples from the Web for stipend
Contemporary Examples
The Organization now hides him and provides him with a stipend for his work.
The Saudi Arabian government paid for her tuition in addition to a $1,800 stipend for personal expenses.
People living off base are given a stipend to cover their housing costs.
My aunt Sadie, God bless her, gave us some kind of a stipend that kept us alive.
At 19, I had a $100 stipend (it may have been a lot less than that, it fact) from which I lived.
Historical Examples
Oh, but for that a stipend of three hundred ducats is too little.
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
Does this mean that you are come to your senses on the score of a stipend, Ser Galeotto?
The Strolling SaintRaphael Sabatini
If you will, you shall have a yearly stipend out of the King's treasury?'
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2J. Endell Tyler
There are some of us who preach and live by it, who might do more to earn our stipend.
Broken BreadThomas Champness
The stipend is 300 a year, and I am told that there is a good house.
The HeroWilliam Somerset Maugham
stipend
- a fixed or regular amount of money paid as a salary or allowance, as to a clergyman
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Word Origin
C15: from Old French stipende, from Latin stīpendium tax, from stips a contribution + pendere to pay out
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Word Origin and History for stipend
n.
early 15c., from Latin stipendium "tax, pay, gift," from stips "alms, small payment" + pendere "weigh" (see pendant).
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