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Definition: Stipendiary |
StipendiaryAdjective1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance; "stipendiary funds". 2. Receiving or eligible for compensation; "salaried workers"; "a stipendiary magistrate". 3. For which money is paid; "a paying job"; "remunerative work"; "salaried employment"; "stipendiary services". Noun1. (British) paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stipendiary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonyms: StipendiarySynonyms: compensable (adj), compensated (adj), paying(a) (adj), remunerated (adj), remunerative (adj), salaried (adj), stipendiary magistrate (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receiving | Sportulary, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary; almsman. |
Subjection | Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stipendiary |
| English words defined with "stipendiary": compensated ♦ remunerated ♦ salaried, Stipendiarian, Stipendiaries. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stipendiary": Clerical Titles. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Stipendiary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.72% of the time. "Stipendiary" is used about 47 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 78.72% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.28% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stipendiary": stipendiary magistrate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "stipendiary": non-stipendiary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stipendiary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrogëtar (Pensionary, pensioner, salaried, wage earner, wageworker), me shpërblim, me pagë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | на заплата, платен служител, платен (paid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | placený (paid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έμμισθοσ μισθοτόσ εργάτησ, μισθοφόροσ (hireling, mercenary, soldier of fortune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendes fizetést kapó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | er faill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipendiarystay remunerado, que recebe estipêndio, estipendiário, assalariado (employee, journeyman, pensionary, salaried, salaried worker, wage earner, wage worker). (various references) salariat (employee, paid, regular, remunerated, salaried, wage earner), persoanã care primeşte un stipendiu. (various references) оплачиваемый (paid, payable, salaried), получающий жалованье (salaried). (various references) plaćenik (hack, hireling), plaćen (paid, salaried), najamnik (hessian, hireling, soldier of fortune), najamnički (mercenary), koji prima platu. (various references) estipendiario. (various references) avlönad tjänsteman, avlönad (salaried). (various references) maaşlı hakim (stipendiary magistrate), maaşlı (gainful, paid, salaried), ücretli (gainful, mercenary, paid, salaried, wage earner). (various references) що одержу" платню (salaried), оплачуваний (gainful, paid, payable). (various references) người được hưởng lương, được hưởng lương. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: dipterans, disparity, pyridines. | |
-3 letters: adenitis, asperity, daintier, dainties, depaints, detrains, dipteran, disinter, distrain, epinasty, inditers, inertias, inspired, intrepid, nitrides, painters, paintier, pantries, parities, pedantry, pertains, pinaster, presidia, pristane, pristine, pyridine, rainiest, randiest, rapidest, rapidity, repaints, riptides, sapidity, spirited, sprained, sprinted, strained, tiderips, traipsed. | |
-4 letters: airiest, anestri, antired, antsier, aridest, aridity, arpents, aspired, aspirin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: pharyngitides. | |
+3 letters: presidentially. | |
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