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Word definitions for gratuity in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gratuity \Gra*tu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Gratuities . [F. gratuit['e], or LL. gratuitas.] Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present. --Swift. Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A reward, service, or payment provided freely, without obligation. 2 (''common usage'') An additional charge placed for services rendered; see also: service fee.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He presumably bought into it with his Foreign Office gratuity . ▪ If a road sweeper kills the king he can't expect to get the same gratuity as a general. ▪ Is a gratuity automatically added to the bill? ▪ Muhlenberg came to the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) [syn: tip , pourboire , baksheesh , bakshish , bakshis , backsheesh ] an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "graciousness," from French gratuité (14c.) or directly from Medieval Latin gratuitatem (nominative gratuitas ) "free gift," probably from Latin gratuitus "free, freely given" (see gratuitous ). Meaning "money given for favor or services" is first ...
Usage examples of gratuity.
He did not even wait for a gratuity, which was just as well, since Herm had only a small number of credit chits still in his pocket.
He thought amusedly of the gratuities he regularly dispensed himselftwo hundred or more taels at a time and never less than a hundred.
Bone to the Dragoons, he by no means gave up the idea of forcibly abducting Meg Clouder, and to this end he saved the many gratuities given to him by the passing guests.
With fifteen thousand pounds, a gratuity and a pension from the Circus, a man--as Control would say--can afford to come in from the cold.
Beck's extended stay in the spa cost him four rubles all together, plus a scattering of kopeks in gratuities, but he emerged claiming to feel healthier and livelier than he had in years.
Thereafter, no longer having to make any false show of affluence, he dispensed only reasonable gratuities to the hotel staff.
The value of certain other gratuities, dispensed in foreign notes, he had not yet troubled to ascertain.
Spadix was not my uncle's but truly mine, bought with the gratuities I had earned.
Much less the gratuities which had always been lavished on dragonriders.
And, he had added sternly, he expected gratuities for the evening's service to double that profit.
He served them disdainfully—he didn't make as much commission from the milder brews—and hurried off, grimacing thanks for the carefully generous gratuity.
First, you notice certain improprieties on the part of the churchmen themselves: secretly violating their vows of chastity, for example, or taking gratuities to look the other way when governmental officials violate scriptural laws.
Decided to get my savings and gratuity out of the Pacific Bank and set up here, ma'am, once my in-laws sent word how well things were going in Irondale," he said.
Decided to get my savings and gratuity out of the Pacific Bank and set up here, ma’am, once my in-laws sent word how well things were going in Irondale,” he said.
For, at that moment, the valet knocked at my door to announce that I might leave the palace at any time hereafter, and he bore over his arm a handsome sable cloak, my very own little gratuity, The Beast's morning gift, in which he proposed to pack me up and send me off.