Emolument

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  • noun. Payment for an office or employment; compensation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received as a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of office, as salary, fees, and perquisites.
  • noun. Profit; advantage; gain in general; that which promotes the good of any person or thing.
  • noun. Synonyms Remuneration, pay, wages, stipend, income.
  • noun. Benefit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Payment for an office or employment; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
  • Word Usage
    "To be true to their own interests they must be false to those of their constituents, for with a lobby backed by THE MONEYED RINGS, corporations and syndicates, emolument is theirs if they will but reciprocate."
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