emolument

See also:émolument

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishemolument,fromOld Frenchemolument,fromLatinēmolumentum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/ɪˈmɒljʊm(ə)nt/,/ɛ-/,/-jə-/
• (General American)IPA^(key):/əˈmɑljəmənt/
• Hyphenation:emo‧lu‧ment

Noun

emolument(pluralemoluments)

1. (formal)Paymentforemploymentor anoffice;compensationfor ajob,which is usuallymonetary.

   Synonyms:compensation,fee,payment,remuneration

   • 1787,Philadelphia Convention,United States Constitution:

     No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present,Emolument,Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

   • 1819June 23,Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym;Washington Irving], “The Author’s Account of Himself”, inThe Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.,number I, New York, N.Y.:[…]C[ornelius]S. Van Winkle,[…],→OCLC,page 5:

     Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and theemolumentof the town-crier.

   • 1897December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill,chapter X, inThe Celebrity: An Episode,New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company;London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:

     The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor [...] had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of anemolumentequal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

Derived terms

• emolumental

Translations

payment for an office or employment

• Bulgarian:заплата(bg)f(zaplata),възнаграждение(bg)n(vǎznagraždenie)
• Catalan:emolumentm
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Báo thù／Báo thù(zh)(bàochou),Thù kim(zh)(chóujīn)

• Dutch:bijverdienste(nl)f
• Finnish:korvaus(fi)
• French:émolument(fr)m
• German:Vergütung(de)f,Honorar(de)n,Diät(de)f
• Indonesian:emolumen(id)
• Italian:emolumento(it)m
• Malay:emolumen(ms)
• Polish:uposażenie(pl)n
• Portuguese:emolumento(pt)
• Romanian:onorariu(ro)n,leafă(ro)f,salariu(ro)n,răsplată(ro)f,plată(ro)
• Russian:вознагражде́ние(ru)n(voznagraždénije),гонора́р(ru)m(gonorár),опла́та(ru)f(opláta),пла́та(ru)f(pláta)
• Spanish:emolumento(es)m,pie de altarm(religious)
• Swedish:arvode(sv)n

See also

• in kind

Further reading

• remunerationon Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchémolumentorLatinemolumentum.

Noun

emolumentn(pluralemolumente)

1. profit

Declension

Declension ofemolument

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)emolument	emolumentul	(niște)emolumente	emolumentele
genitive/dative	(unui)emolument	emolumentului	(unor)emolumente	emolumentelor
vocative	emolumentule		emolumentelor

References

• emolumentin Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a,Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN