stipend

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sti=pend

CIDE DICTIONARY

stipend, n. [L. stipendium; stips, gen. stipis, a gift, donation, given in small coin + pendere to weigh or pay out.].

 Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.  [1913 Webster]

stipend, v. t. 

 To pay by settled wages.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stipend, n. a fixed regular allowance or salary, esp. paid to a clergyman.

Etymology

ME f. OF stipend(i)e or L stipendium f. stips wages + pendere to pay

THESAURUS

stipend

account, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assessment, assistance, award, bill, blackmail, blood money, bounty, compensation, consideration, depletion allowance, dole, earnings, emolument, fee, fellowship, financial assistance, financial support, footing, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, hire, hush money, income, initiation fee, mileage, old-age insurance, pay, payment, pecuniary aid, pension, price support, public assistance, public welfare, reckoning, recompense, relief, remittance, remuneration, retainer, retaining fee, retirement benefits, reward, salary, scholarship, scot, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, tax benefit, tribute, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

ROGET THESAURUS

stipend

Reward

N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.