emolument

C2 Topic:Money & Finance
US /əˈmɑljəmənt/ UK /ɪˈmɒljʊmənt/
noun Freq #175897

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · payment or financial... compensationfeepaymentremuneration
Word family
Forms emoluments
Derived forms emolumentalemolumentary

Etymology

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

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