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.

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Origin of stipend

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” (see pend) + -ium noun suffix (see -ium)

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1, 2. See pay¹.

OTHER WORDS FROM stipend

sti·pend·less, adjective

Words nearby stipend

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

How to use stipend in a sentence

I also introduced the “Golden Girls Bill” that would give a stipend to seniors who rent rooms to other seniors, allowing them to age-in-place while also creating small communities of support and companionship.
Do our policies match the District’s pride?|Robert C. White, Jr.|October 21, 2020|Washington Blade
Local jurisdictions often pay poll workers a stipend via check for participation.
Old Navy will pay employees to work at voting polls on Election Day|Rachel King|September 1, 2020|Fortune
I applied for a nine-week certified nursing program but deregistered because I could not wait nine weeks to receive my first stipend.
What I learned from 5 years of cleaning airplanes in the middle of the night|matthewheimer|August 30, 2020|Fortune
Employee benefits are transforming in interesting ways From 401k to educational stipends, employers have changed a number of offerings to retain and attract staff in trying times.
Research: Only 25 percent of professionals expect to be working from home long-term|DailyPay|August 17, 2020|Digiday

Councilman Chris Cate then joined Lewis to discuss his proposals for helping families, who are now expected to co-teach more intensively, with tax credits and stipends.
Morning Report: The Criminal Justice World Changed After This Police Shooting|Voice of San Diego|July 30, 2020|Voice of San Diego
The Organization now hides him and provides him with a stipend for his work.
An Iraqi Group Helping Women and Gays Is Receiving Death Threats|Jacob Siegel|July 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Saudi Arabian government paid for her tuition in addition to a $1,800 stipend for personal expenses.
Saudi Beauty Says She Robbed Banks for Her Mafia Lover|Caitlin Dickson|May 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A debilitating fall and broken hip further strained a meager $125 monthly government stipend.
Havana Bids Adios to Conrado Marrero, MLB’s Oldest Player|Peter C. Bjarkman|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
People living off base are given a stipend to cover their housing costs.
The U.S. Military Is a Socialist Paradise|Jacob Siegel|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My aunt Sadie, God bless her, gave us some kind of a stipend that kept us alive.
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview|Alex Belth|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The clergyman, with humble stipend, often hopeless from want of interest, has leisure—he has had education.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness|Florence Hartley
The fixed stipend was small, but the fabric, raised and adorned as funds allowed, was commodious and beautiful.
The Influence and Development of English Gilds|Francis Aiden Hibbert
In 1695 we hear of a conventicle in Bungay, with a preacher with a regularly paid stipend of £40 a year.
East Anglia|J. Ewing Ritchie
He was not a very young man; turned thirty; but his stipend in the country had been only fifty pounds a-year.
Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series|Mrs. Henry Wood
He had no certain dwelling-place, no certain stipend, and bestowed all he got on works of charity.
History of Prince Edward Island|Duncan Campbell

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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