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stipend
[ stahy-pend ]
noun
- a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student.
- fixed or regular pay; salary.
stipend
/ ˈstaɪpɛnd /
noun
- a fixed or regular amount of money paid as a salary or allowance, as to a clergyman
Other Words From
- stipend·less adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of stipend1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The Organization now hides him and provides him with a stipend for his work.
The Saudi Arabian government paid for her tuition in addition to a $1,800 stipend for personal expenses.
A debilitating fall and broken hip further strained a meager $125 monthly government stipend.
People living off base are given a stipend to cover their housing costs.
My aunt Sadie, God bless her, gave us some kind of a stipend that kept us alive.
The clergyman, with humble stipend, often hopeless from want of interest, has leisure—he has had education.
The fixed stipend was small, but the fabric, raised and adorned as funds allowed, was commodious and beautiful.
In 1695 we hear of a conventicle in Bungay, with a preacher with a regularly paid stipend of £40 a year.
He was not a very young man; turned thirty; but his stipend in the country had been only fifty pounds a-year.
He had no certain dwelling-place, no certain stipend, and bestowed all he got on works of charity.
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