stipend

[ stahy-pend ]

/ ˈstaɪ pɛnd /

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noun

a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.

fixed or regular pay; salary.

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Origin of stipend

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English stipendie, from Latin stīpendium “soldier's pay,” syncopated variant of *stipipendium, equivalent to stipi-, combining form of stips a coin + pend(ere) “to weigh out, pay” (see pend) + -ium noun suffix (see -ium)

synonym study for stipend

1, 2. See pay¹.

OTHER WORDS FROM stipend

sti·pend·less, adjective

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How to use stipend in a sentence

It will have to pay stipends to heads of families while they retrain, and will need to protect haredim from job discrimination.
Lapid's Budget: Let the Outsiders' Children Go Hungry|Gershom Gorenberg|May 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Since the start of the Arab spring, the king has spent $130 billion in new stipends and projects to try to buy off dissent.
With Prince Muqrin’s Appointment, Saudi Succession Crisis Looms|Bruce Riedel|February 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Men who study receive small stipends, paid for with a mix of state assistance and donations.
A Yom Kippur Reading|David Frum|September 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The act gives training, respite care, and stipends to family members who take on the role of long-term caregivers to the wounded.
Michele Bachmann's Attack on Veterans|Laura Colarusso|February 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Universities are tuition-free, and the government provides college students with living stipends during their studies.
Clinton: America Should Be Like Finland|Dana Goldstein|September 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Latterly things had come to such a pass that even the reduced stipends offered to the members fell into arrear.
Hyacinth|George A. Birmingham
Residences subsisted merely upon stipends for masses and preaching, or alms spontaneously offered.
The War Upon Religion|Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
The professed houses are to subsist on alms, and cannot receive even the usual stipends.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921|Thomas J. Campbell
The Laird of Pittarrow was appointed to pay the ministers' stipends, according to their modification.
The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland|John Knox
There their names and number must be taken and put in roll; and then may the wisdom of the kirk appoint stipends accordingly.
The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland|John Knox

British Dictionary definitions for stipend

stipend

/ (ˈstaɪpɛnd) /

noun

a fixed or regular amount of money paid as a salary or allowance, as to a clergyman

Word Origin for stipend

C15: from Old French stipende, from Latin stīpendium tax, from stips a contribution + pendere to pay out

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stipend

Origin of stipend

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