Noun : Tips are an emolument in addition to wages. From Dictionary.com.
Now for the term emolument. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Yesterday's term was emolument, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #28] Reference
Without ‘been’, the clause can be interpreted as the active voice where the emolument is the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » New Justice Department Opinion on the Ineligibility Clause (Sometimes Also Called the Emoluments Clause):] Reference
The Maintenance Act provides mechanisms for the enforcement of maintenance orders, such as emolument attachments, attachment of property and garnishee orders. From Wordnik.com. [December 2005] Reference
"Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
There is no doubt that the Nobel Peace Prize is an "emolument" ( "gain from employment or position," according to Webster). From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Dad] Reference
So, little thinking how soon he would begin to regard the "emolument" as ludicrously inadequate, he set to work on "Pickwick.". From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens] Reference
The "emolument" derived from this second edition at last enabled her to pay her debts, and to put out a small sum upon interest. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in American Literature] Reference
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)] Reference
He swept them from every office of profit or emolument under the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Members are not now paid; the honor of the position is sufficient emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
That no offer of any other title or emolument or office should be considered. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
I venture to say that not a single native Cuban holds an office or receives public emolument. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
To his kindly patronage, many young men of genius were indebted for positions of honour and emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Spanish garrison; it is probable that the governor engaged in it chiefly from views of private emolument. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
A.D.C. to Her Majesty is a coveted dignity, but a mere honorary office, carrying neither pay nor emolument. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
In no case is there either labour without emolument, nor emolument in general without the expense of labour. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
Positions from which much emolument might be derived were offered him, but he answered them with a polite refusal. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886] Reference
Another letter however shows that Kallima-Sin finally consented on condition of large emolument to send Lukhaite to. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Ecclesiastics, soldiers in active service, and persons receiving emolument from public funds are debarred from these offices. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And though I did feebly query whether I should be equally bound to establish a communication, with pecuniary emolument, to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Latterly he has occupied a post of respectable emolument, and with sufficient leisure for the improvement of his literary tastes. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
I am very much flattered by your commendation of my last letter, for I write only for fame, and without any view to pecuniary emolument. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
They also made liberal offers for ransoming the fort; but the captors, preferring the public good to private emolument, refused all terms. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
After practising his craft in various localities, he has latterly settled in Glasgow, where he holds a situation of respectable emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
He possessed great natural abilities, which he dedicated to the service of his fellow-creatures, without any view of emolument to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Tudesca, who filled every position of authority and grasped at every office of emolument, and hunting them like a routed army out of the land. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Nursing the sick is a favourite profession in Finland, the emolument varying from two to six hundred marks per annum, in addition to board, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
He had already joined, or at least seemed to join, the revolutioners, being determined to retain at all events his places of profit and emolument. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
No one would have thought of making such an offer to an English loafer, and no English loafer would have had the wit to so neatly earn his emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
American of this day as one who was as willing to spend money for national honor as he was earnest and keen in gathering it up for private emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Progressive emolument, with the prospect of a long, permanent career and a pension at the end of it would be inducements to efficiency and moral stability. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
First, the existence of the provision in the Constitution indicates that the presumption is against the acceptance of the present, emolument, office, or title. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Owen, as editor, was to receive a moderate salary -- moderate because he felt that in the circumstances the backing he received was worth more than any emolument. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
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