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
Example Sentences
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Stipendiary steward Robert Sidebottom said the rider "didn't make all reasonable substantial effort to achieve the best possible placing."
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2013
Naturally the Stipendiary was bound to show that before the law all men are equal—the Town Councillor and the common tippler; he succeeded.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
And we are glad to hear that the present government, sensible of their obligations to Fitzgerald O'Driscol, Esq., are about to confer the office of Stipendiary Magistrate upon his son.
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
It occurred that the Stipendiary Magistrate was sitting that morning at Bursley.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
The Stipendiary achieved marvellously the illusion that to him a murder by a Town Councillor in St. Luke's Square was quite an everyday matter.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
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