stipend

[stahy-pend]

noun

1. a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.

2. fixed or regular pay; salary.

stipend

/ ˈstaɪpɛnd /

noun

1. a fixed or regular amount of money paid as a salary or allowance, as to a clergyman

Other Word Forms

• stipendless adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stipend¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English stipendie, from Latin stīpendium “soldier's pay,” syncopated variant of *stipipendium, equivalent to stipi-, combining form of stips a coin + pend(ere) “to weigh out, pay” ( pend ) + -ium noun suffix ( -ium )

Word History and Origins

Origin of stipend¹

C15: from Old French stipende, from Latin stīpendium tax, from stips a contribution + pendere to pay out

Synonym Study

See pay ¹.

Example Sentences

“It comes out of my huge stipend at the end of the season,” Guzman said.

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CSU’s chancellor, vice chancellors and university presidents will also receive enhanced retirement benefits and housing stipends for campus presidents will be increased.

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Over the past half-century it became standard for doctoral programs at elite institutions to offer full scholarships and modest stipends.

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Now, he will live out his days largely out of sight and living off a stipend provided by the king.

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According to the yearlong study published this month, of the unhoused people who received the cash stipend, 48% exited homelessness, compared with 43% in a control group of homeless individuals who did not receive money.

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Related Words

• allowance 
• fee 
• gratuity 
• pension 
• salary 
• wage