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Definition of Stipend
1. Noun. A sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose.
Definition of Stipend
1. n. Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
2. v. t. To pay by settled wages.
Definition of Stipend
1. Noun. a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance ¹
2. Verb. (rare) To provide (someone) with a stipend. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stipend
1. a fixed sum of money paid periodically [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stipend
Literary usage of Stipend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"138, no stipend can be augmented a second time till after the lapse of 20 years
from a previous augmentation. The augmented stipend is modified in victual; ..."
2. Manual of the Law of Scotland by John Hill Burton (1847)
"No stipend is due until the collation have taken place, and a payment before that
event will not relieve the heritors from.a subsequent claim.6 Collation ..."
3. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"In modifying a stipend, although the quantity is declared in victual, yet it must be
... A stipend was modified in 1812 at 660 ling fish, 1200 cans of oil, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"By a mass-stipend is meant a certain monetary offering which anyone makes to the
priest with ... The idea of the stipend emanates from the earliest ages, ..."
5. A Hand-book of the Law of Scotland by James Lorimer, Dugald M'Kechnie (1873)
"stipend, the provision for the support of the clergy of ... Whitsunday and
Michaelmas are the terms at which stipend is due. If a minister is admitted ..."
6. Accounting in Theory and Practice: A Text-book for the Use of Accountants by George Lisle (1906)
"Minister's stipend. When minister's stipend is a " just allowance " under Section
IV. of the Act of 1870, and forms a deduction from rents, ..."
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