STIPENDIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stipendiary mean? 

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

1. (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases

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

• STIPENDIARY (adjective)
  The adjective STIPENDIARY has 3 senses:

1. pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance

2. receiving or eligible for compensation

3. for which money is paid

  Familiarity information: STIPENDIARY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIPENDIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

stipendiary; stipendiary magistrate

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

magistrate (a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

• STIPENDIARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

stipendiary funds

Pertainym:

stipend (a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose)

Derivation:

stipend (a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Receiving or eligible for compensation

Synonyms:

compensated; remunerated; salaried; stipendiary

Context example:

a stipendiary magistrate

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

Sense 3

Meaning:

For which money is paid

Synonyms:

compensable; paying; remunerative; salaried; stipendiary

Context example:

stipendiary services

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)

 Context examples 

When the day arrived, my very carpet-bag was an object of veneration to the stipendiary clerks, to whom the house at Norwood was a sacred mystery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The stipendiary emoluments in consideration of which I entered into the service of—HEEP, always pausing before that word and uttering it with astonishing vigour, were not defined, beyond the pittance of twenty-two shillings and six per week.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My employer, ma'am—Mr. Heep—once did me the favour to observe to me, that if I were not in the receipt of the stipendiary emoluments appertaining to my engagement with him, I should probably be a mountebank about the country, swallowing a sword-blade, and eating the devouring element.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)