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Definition: Stipend |
StipendNoun1. A sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stipend" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reward | Allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi, dustoori; mileage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stipend |
| English words defined with "stipend": Annat ♦ prebend ♦ stipendiary, Stipendiate, Stipendless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stipend": CADDIE ♦ Not Worth Your Salt ♦ Passing Rich. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stipend" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Norwegian (exhibition, grant). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Seychelles | Children in the latter programs received a training stipend, which was less than the minimum wage. (references) |
Jordan | The Ministry of Social Development has a committee to address the problem and in some cases removes the children from the streets, returns them to their families or to juvenile centers, and may provide the families with a monthly stipend. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Iceland | For the first year, they also are given free housing, utilities, and health care and receive a stipend so that they can participate daily in a special half-day language course. (references) |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | The BGMEA Vigilance Team fined each factory US$ 100. Also under the MOU, the ILO and UNICEF offer former child employees a small monthly stipend while attending school to help replace their lost income. (references) |
Political Rights | Yemen | The Government provides financial support to political parties, including a small stipend to publish their own newspapers. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | To receive the stipend, the child's monthly attendance rate must be 85 percent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Stipend" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.94% of the time. "Stipend" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 50.94% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 49.06% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stipend | 70 |
definition stipend | 3 |
administration rehabilitation services stipend | 2 |
legat stipend | 2 |
stipend tax | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stipend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pagë (earnings, emolument, gainings, pay, prebend, salary, screw, wage), bursë (exchange, exhibition, fellowship, grant, grants, scholarship, stock exchange, stock market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحة دراسية (scholarship), معاش (livelihood, pay, pension, salary, wages), مرتب (earning, in order, orderly, regular, salary, trim, well arranged, well ordered), رواتب, راتب (pay, salary, screw, wages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | заплата (earnings, emolument, pay, paycheck, remuneration, salary, screw, wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | služné plat, příjem (earnings, gains, income, receipt, reception, revenue, taking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stipendium (scholarship, study bursary, study grant), legat (scholarship, study bursary, study grant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | studiebeurs (scholarship, study bursary, study grant), stipendium (subsidy), beurs (purse, stock exchange, wallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مواجب (Emolument, Salary), حقوق (Due, Emolument, Law, Pension, Salary), جیره (Allotment), دستمزد (Wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bourse (Stock Exchange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gehalt (bulk, content, dimension, extend, pay, Sal, salary, salary package, size, substance, wage, wages), stipendium (bursary, exhibition, grant, scholarship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μισθόσ κληρικού (prebend), μισθόσ (earnings, emolument, hire, pay, salary, wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מל'" (scholarship), קצב" (allotment, allowance, dole, limit, pension), סטיפ "י" (grant, scholarship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | illetmény (allowance, fee, pay, salary), fizetés (earnings, emoluments, exhibition, fee, hire, improver, military pay, pay, payment, salary, wage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sussidio (aid, dole, grant, handout, subsidy, subvention, welfare), congrua, borsa (bag, bourse, exchange, fellowship, grant, grip, handbag, pannier, pouch, purse, sack, saddlebag, stock market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 石高 (yield), 禄高 , 扶持 (allowance, ration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふち (abyss, allowance, arrangement, deep pool, edge, grouping, ignorance, incurability, ration, the depths), "く か (yield), ろく か. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | faill (board, fare, fee, hire, pay, salary, wages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipendstay soldo (hire, pay, wage), salário (earnings, fee, makings, pay, salary, wage, wages), estipêndio, emolumento (emolument, fee, gainings). (various references) subsidiu (grant, subsidy), stipendiu, stipendia (subsidize), salariu (earnings, hire, pay packet, salary, wage), bursã (bursary, exchange, grant, scholarship, security market, the house). (various references) стипендия (grant, grants, prize fellowship, scholarship, studentship). (various references) stìpean (a stipend). (various references) plata (fee, pay, payday, remuneration, salary, screw, wage, wages). (various references) estipendio. (various references) lön (emolument, hire, pay, repayment, reward, salary, screw, wage, wages). (various references) maaş (compensation, earnings, emolument, pay, salary, wage), aylık (mensal, monthly, salary), ücret (charge, dues, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, rate, remuneration, salary, terms, wage, wage rate, wages). (various references) стипендія (bursary, burse, scholarship, studentship), платня (appointment, pay, salary), допомога (abetment, aid, assistance, backing, bield, facilitation, furtherance, help, helping, relief, succor, succour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | salarium, stipendia, stipendiis, stipendium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stipend": stipendiaries, stipendiary, stipends. (additional references) | |
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"Stipend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schwendi, stipen, stipende, stipened, stipent, stippen, stippend, stoppen, stripend, tipend. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stipend" (pronounced stī"pund) |
| 5 | -ī" p u n d | ripened. |
| 4 | -p u n d | cheapened, dampened, deepened, happened, opened, reopened, sharpened, steepened, unopened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, darkened, decommissioned, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, stiffened, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dipnets. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: dipnet, instep, sniped, spined, spinet, spited, stiped, teinds. | |
-2 letters: deist, dents, diets, dines, dints, dites, edits, inept, inset, neist, nides, nites, peins, pends, penis, pined, pines, pints, piste, senti, siped, sited, snide, snipe, spend, spent, spied, spine, spite, stein, stied, stipe, teind, tends, tepid, tides, tined, tines. | |
-3 letters: deni, dens, dent, dies, diet. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: depaints, splinted, sprinted, stipends. | |
+2 letters: antipodes, despiting, dipterans, dripstone, endpoints, inspected, pediments, piedmonts, pintadoes, president, standpipe, supinated, tepidness, windswept. | |
+3 letters: centipedes, deceptions, depictions, depletions, depositing, deposition, desorption, diplotenes, discepting, discrepant, dispersant, displanted, dripstones, expedients, inspirited, interposed, mispainted, misplanted, mispointed, misprinted, pantsuited, patronised, pedantries, pedestrian, pentoxides, perditions, phantasied, pinstriped, planetoids, plenitudes, positioned, predations, predestine, presidents, printheads, pteridines, punditries, rinderpest, signposted, spindliest, splintered, springtide, stampeding, standpipes, stupidness, surprinted, terpenoids, transpired, undisputed, unscripted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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