What is "stipend"

Usage examples of "stipend".

Victor and Colney had been champion duellists for the rosy and the saturnine since the former cheerfully slaved for a small stipend in the City of his affection, and the latter entered on an inheritance counted in niggard hundreds, that withdrew a briefless barrister disposed for scholarship from the forlornest of seats in the Courts.

Katsumata was one of the few clandestine shishi who was hatomoto--an honored retainer with instant access to his lord--a senior samurai with a personal yearly stipend of a thousand koku.

Reputedly, there was enough gratitude among the merchants and tradesfolk to cause them to pay the young couple a handsome stipend.

It was an upscale, trendoid kind of place, and I wondered how big that stipend was.

The Rhone Valley and the Midi seem to have been marked both by anticlericalism and militant Catholicism, and the revolutionary settlement was most widely accepted in the Seine Valley, the Paris region and in the poorest regions of central France, where the attraction of a better stipend for curates may well have been a decisive factor.

With the Ayuntamiento debt outstanding andwiththe stipend I am sending you, there is nothing left for frivolities.

Then, too, the Ayuntamiento was always in arrears in paying us our monthly stipend, a sum considerably reduced from what they had originally promised.

He came of an old Cambridgeshire family, had some private means, was going to take a church in Northamptonshire with a good stipend, and was not married.

So, Sir Renny, the crown will endow you with an annual stipend which your parents will use for you as they deem fit.

I was a wide-eyed innocent freshman at William and Mary, and Alan was a grad student in anthropology, earning his stipend by teaching an introductory anthro course.

The price was moderate, as Aziz had told him it would be, and was well within the limits of the modest stipend he received from the Sultan.

First Minister of the Crown gave evidence as the amount of his salary, saying that his place entailed upon him expenses higher than his stipend would defray.

His zeal for justice is also whetted by hopes of profit, especially with a poor and greedy agent with a large family, when he receives as stipend so many dollars per head for each witch burned, besides the incidental fees and perquisites which investigating agents are allowed to extort at will from those they summon.

But even the liberal stipend of a hundred and thirty pounds a year--liberal according to the scale by which the incomes of clergymen in our new districts are now apportioned--would not admit of a gentleman with his wife and four children living with the ordinary comforts of an artisan's family.

She seats me across from her, makes sure that I don’t want any coffee or other refreshment, nods away her aide, commiserates with me again on the death of my dear friends (she had been there at the Memorial Service at which the President had spoken), chats with me for another minute about how amazing life is now with the Song connecting all of us, and then questions me for a few minutes, sensitively, solicitously, about my physical recovery (complete), my state of mind (shaken but improving), my generous stipend from the government (already invested), and my plans for the future.