stipend

[ stahy-pend ]

/ ˈstaɪ pɛnd /

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noun

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

fixed or regular pay; salary.

Nearby words

stinky pinky, stinnes, stint, stipe, stipel, stipend, stipendiary, stipes, stipitate, stipitiform, stipo

Origin of stipend

1400–50; late Middle English stipendie < Latin stīpendium soldier's pay, syncopated variant of *stipipendium, equivalent to stipi-, combining form of stips a coin + pend(ere) to weigh out, pay (see pend) + -ium -ium

SYNONYMS FOR stipend

1, 2 See pay¹.

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Related forms

sti·pend·less, adjective

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Examples from the Web for stipend

The Organization now hides him and provides him with a stipend for his work.
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The Saudi Arabian government paid for her tuition in addition to a $1,800 stipend for personal expenses.
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People living off base are given a stipend to cover their housing costs.
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My aunt Sadie, God bless her, gave us some kind of a stipend that kept us alive.
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At 19, I had a $100 stipend (it may have been a lot less than that, it fact) from which I lived.
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Yet they had four thousand more families than they had forty years ago and six thousand more contributors to the stipend fund.
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The order was, that the Nabob's stipend should be reduced to sixteen lac a year from the month of January.
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It consists of five neat dwellings, to which is annexed a yearly stipend of upwards of 60l.
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I answered that my stipend need be no consideration, for I only wished to spend on the parish, but he was not satisfied.
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So "Government" agreed to give you a stipend to support your wife!'
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British Dictionary definitions for stipend

stipend

/ (ˈstaɪpɛnd) /

noun

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

Word Origin for stipend

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

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