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Electronic Word of the Day Emolumen

Filed under: Dictionary — by Dictionary - Electronic @ 5:12 am June 13, 2006

emolument \ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt\, noun:
The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation.

The record indicates that few grandees who pleaded poverty to avoid service were left without substantial maintenance grants and emoluments and that the Crown gladly financed their luxurious military lifestyles.
– Fernando Gonzales de Leon, “Aristocratic draft-dodgers in 17th-century Spain”, History Today, 7/1

Although not very rich, he is easy in his circumstances and would not with a view to emolument alone wish for employment.
– Henry Dundas, quoted in The Elgin Affair, by Theodore Vrettos

And they are not obliged to follow those occupations, if they prefer leisure to emolument.
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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