adjective
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receiving or working for regular pay
a stipendiary magistrate
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paid for by a stipend
noun
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Etymology
Origin of stipendiary
1535–45; < Latin stīpendiārius, equivalent to stīpendi ( um ) stipend + -ārius -ary
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It's unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University.
From BBC ● May 27, 2014
Later in the course of the inquiry the trainer and the stipendiary stewards were talking in Hindi and I couldn't understand what they were saying.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
The moment I knew I was in trouble was when the stipendiary steward asked the trainer, 'Is it possible for a jockey to make a horse bleed during the course of the race?'
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2013
Paul Barton, the stipendiary steward working at Worcester, described the circumstances as "exceptional".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2012
When captured by the Romans they made it a stipendiary town.
From Cathedral Cities of England by Gilbert, George
No use taking the 'great unpaid' into my confidence, nor yet the sharper stipendiaries.
From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne
I make no doubt that this is done already to a large extent by stipendiaries and the more enlightened magistrates.
From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott
Each of the stipendiaries has discharged his obligation, and the Pope and Monsignori find that the Council has cost large sums, but think the money is well spent and will bring in abundant interest.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
Would it not be possible to appoint a certain proportion of stipendiaries, with ample salaries, to that body?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 by Various
Mrs. Datchett, the wife of one of our stipendiaries, is the only lady here, and I hope to have the pleasure of making you acquainted with her this evening at the Commandant's.
From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop
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