adjective
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receiving or working for regular pay
a stipendiary magistrate
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paid for by a stipend
noun
Etymology
Origin of stipendiary
1535–45; < Latin stīpendiārius, equivalent to stīpendi ( um ) stipend + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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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
Noel Quinlan said he spoke only to the stipendiary steward after the easy victories of Bishopbriggs and Tell Halaf, from the Newmarket stable which he shares with his brother, Michael.
From The Guardian • Jan. 1, 2011
Y. S. M. Stipendiary Curates.—What is the earliest mention of stipendiary curates in our ecclesiastical establishment?
From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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