stipendiary
adjective
receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
stipendiaries
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pluralof stipendiary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“No use taking the ‘great unpaid’ into my confidence, nor yet the sharper stipendiaries.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
The great wire-puller and his gang of stipendiaries were the objects of popular gratitude and adoration.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Constance Fenimore Woolson
These bands of Northern stipendiaries assumed, therefore, a civil, as well as a military, importance; they were as indispensable to the safety of one state as they were destructive to the security of all.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
It has been generally so since the days of Jeroboam who "made priests of the lowest of the people," and thereby rendered the ministry the stipendiaries of the state.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
There be seven Prebends and a Sexton under them; seven stipendiaries; the allowance for four of them is ten nobles apiece; for the other three £6 apiece.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
