Emolument Definition

ĭ-mŏlyə-mənt
emoluments
noun
Gain from employment or position; payment received for work; salary, wages, fees, etc.
Webster's New World
A payment or other benefit received as a result of employment or of the holding of a public office.
Webster's New World Law
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Other Word Forms of Emolument

Noun

Singular:
emolument
Plural:
emoluments

Origin of Emolument

  • Middle English from Latin ēmolumentum gain, originally a miller's fee for grinding grain from ēmolere to grind out ē-, ex- ex- molere to grind melə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French emolument, from Latin emolumentum

    From Wiktionary

Emolument Sentence Examples

  • Two years later he was appointed physician to Queen Elizabeth, with the usual emolument of £too a year.

  • There is no proof that any direct emolument was ever attached to the office, while the expense and trouble entailed by it must often have been very great.

  • The Institutionum historiae ecclesiasticae libri appeared in 1726, and in the same year he was appointed by the duke of Brunswick abbot of Marienthal, to which dignity and emolument the abbacy of Michaelstein was added in the following year.

  • Every position of influence and emolument was assigned to them; they themselves boastingly called the important province of Irak the garden of Koreish.

  • They were insatiable in their demands for office and emolument, and when they discovered that the shah, acting by the advice of the British envoy, was levying from among their tribesmen regiments to be directly under his control, they took care that the plan should fail.

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