EMOLUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emolument mean? 

• EMOLUMENT (noun)
  The noun EMOLUMENT has 1 sense:

1. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)

  Familiarity information: EMOLUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMOLUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes

Hypernyms ("emolument" is a kind of...):

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

 Context examples 

Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I replied, with all due deference to his experience (but with more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), that perhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court, containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow and anywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)