stipend
- a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- fixed or regular pay; salary.
Origin of stipend
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Related Words for stipends
salary, wage, fee, gratuity, pension, allowance, hire, pay, award, emolument, consideration, takeExamples from the Web for stipends
Contemporary Examples of stipends
The act gives training, respite care, and stipends to family members who take on the role of long-term caregivers to the wounded.
One final note before I move on to more pressing correspondence—Butch and Leon have again neglected my stipends.
Historical Examples of stipends
The stipends of Methodist ministers in those days were very small.
The Story of My LifeEgerton Ryerson
The stipends of the pastors were also in great part wanting.
The Vaudois of PiedmontJohn Napper Worsfold
Maidens' tochers and ministers' stipends are aye less than ca'd.
The Proverbs of ScotlandAlexander Hislop
The stipends of the Master and Usher were not wholly ungenerous.
A History of Giggleswick SchoolEdward Allen Bell
He abated the stipends of the Captayns, whom they nominate Saniachi.
The Palace of PleasureWilliam Painter
stipend
- a fixed or regular amount of money paid as a salary or allowance, as to a clergyman
Word Origin for stipend
Word Origin and History for stipends
stipend
early 15c., from Latin stipendium "tax, pay, gift," from stips "alms, small payment" + pendere "weigh" (see pendant).