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EMOLUMENT

• 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.

• EMOLUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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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))

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
(English proverb)
"You must first walk around a bit before you can understand the distance from the valley to the mountain."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it."
(Arabic proverb)
"One who scorns is one who buys."
(Corsican proverb)

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