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 Words From

• stipend·less 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

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.

From Washington Blade

Local jurisdictions often pay poll workers a stipend via check for participation.

From Fortune

I applied for a nine-week certified nursing program but deregistered because I could not wait nine weeks to receive my first stipend.

From 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.

From 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.

From Voice of San Diego

The Organization now hides him and provides him with a stipend for his work.

From The Daily Beast

The Saudi Arabian government paid for her tuition in addition to a $1,800 stipend for personal expenses.

From The Daily Beast

A debilitating fall and broken hip further strained a meager $125 monthly government stipend.

From The Daily Beast

People living off base are given a stipend to cover their housing costs.

From The Daily Beast

My aunt Sadie, God bless her, gave us some kind of a stipend that kept us alive.

From The Daily Beast

The clergyman, with humble stipend, often hopeless from want of interest, has leisure—he has had education.

From Project Gutenberg

The fixed stipend was small, but the fabric, raised and adorned as funds allowed, was commodious and beautiful.

From Project Gutenberg

In 1695 we hear of a conventicle in Bungay, with a preacher with a regularly paid stipend of £40 a year.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not a very young man; turned thirty; but his stipend in the country had been only fifty pounds a-year.

From Project Gutenberg

He had no certain dwelling-place, no certain stipend, and bestowed all he got on works of charity.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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