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stipendiary

[ stahy-pen-dee-er-ee ]

adjective

  1. receiving a stipend; performing services for regular pay.
  2. paid for by a stipend:

    stipendiary services.

  3. pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend.


noun

, plural sti·pen·di·ar·ies.
  1. a person who receives a stipend.

stipendiary

/ staɪˈpɛndɪərɪ /

adjective

  1. receiving or working for regular pay

    a stipendiary magistrate

  2. paid for by a stipend
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a person who receives regular payment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stipendiary1

1535–45; < Latin stīpendiārius, equivalent to stīpendi ( um ) stipend + -ārius -ary
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stipendiary1

C16: from Latin stīpendiārius concerning tribute, from stīpendium stipend
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Example Sentences

The council may by petition obtain the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate for the borough.

When they received pay, which must have been the usual case, they were literally his soldiers, or stipendiary troops.

In the remote country places more than anywhere is the stipendiary a necessity.

He was made pensionary (stipendiary magistrate) of Middelburg; and two years afterwards of Dort.

The evidence was excessively contradictory, and the Stipendiary dismissed the summons with a good joke.

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