Crossword clues for gratuity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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 attested 1530s.
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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A gratuity (also called a tip) is a sum of money customarily tendered, in addition to the basic price, to certain service sector workers for a service performed or anticipated. Depending on the country or location, it may be customary to tip servers in bars and restaurants, taxi drivers, hair stylists, and so on.
Tips and their amount are a matter of social custom and etiquette, and the custom varies between countries and settings. In some locations tipping is discouraged and considered insulting; while in some other locations tipping is expected from customers. The customary amount of a tip can be a specific range of monetary amounts or a certain percentage of the bill based on the perceived quality of the service given.
In some circumstances, such as with U.S. government workers and more widely with police officers, receiving gratuities (or even offering them) is illegal: they may be regarded as bribery. A fixed percentage service charge is sometimes added to bills in restaurants and similar establishments. Tipping may not be expected when a fee is explicitly charged for the service.
From a theoretical economic point of view, gratuities solve the principal-agent problem, and many managers believe they provide incentive for greater worker effort. However, studies of the real world practice show that tipping is often discriminatory: workers receive different levels of gratuity based on factors such as age, sex, race, hair color and even breast size, and the size of the gratuity is found to be only very weakly related to the quality of service.
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.