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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fixed periodical allowance or payment; settled or fixed pay; salary; pay; specifically, in Scotland, the salary paid to a clergyman; the income of an ecclesiastical living.
  • noun Synonyms Pay, etc. See salary.
  • To pay by settled stipend or wages; put upon or provide with a stipend. Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, xlvii.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To pay by settled wages.
  • noun Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance
  • verb To provide (someone) with a stipend.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English stipendie, from Old French, from Latin stīpendium, soldier's pay, from *stipipendium : stips, stip-, a small payment + pendere, to weigh, pay; see suspend.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French stipende.

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