emolument

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Payment or financial benefit received from a job or official position.

   The constitution forbids officials from accepting any emolument from a foreign government.

Simplified etymology

Emolument came into English in the late Middle Ages from Latin emolumentum. The Latin word probably originally denoted a payment made to a miller for grinding corn and was related to emolere, “to grind up,” in which e- conveyed the idea of doing so thoroughly.

From Middle English emolument, from Old French emolument, from Latin ēmolumentum.

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