Stipendiary

  

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Stipendiary

Definition: Stipendiary

Stipendiary

Adjective

1. 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".

Noun

1. (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: Stipendiary

Synonyms: compensable (adj), compensated (adj), paying(a) (adj), remunerated (adj), remunerative (adj), salaried (adj), stipendiary magistrate (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Stipendiary

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Stipendiary

English words defined with "stipendiary": compensatedremuneratedsalaried, Stipendiarian, Stipendiaries. (references)
Specialty definitions using "stipendiary": Clerical Titles. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Stipendiary

DomainTitle

Books

  • Justices of the Peace Bill : report on the consolidation of certain enactments relating to justices of the peace (including stipendiary magistrates), justices' clerks and the administrative and financial arrangements for magistrates' courts, and to matter (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Stipendiary

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)78.72%3756,631
Noun (proper)21.28%10111,207
                    Total100.00%47N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Stipendiary

Expression using "stipendiary": stipendiary magistrate. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "stipendiary": non-stipendiary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stipendiary

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

   

Portuguese

  

remunerado, que recebe estipêndio, estipendiário, assalariado (employee, journeyman, pensionary, salaried, salaried worker, wage earner, wage worker). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

salariat (employee, paid, regular, remunerated, salaried, wage earner), persoanã care primeşte un stipendiu. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

оплачиваемый (paid, payable, salaried), получающий жалованье (salaried). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plaćenik (hack, hireling), plaćen (paid, salaried), najamnik (hessian, hireling, soldier of fortune), najamnički (mercenary), koji prima platu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estipendiario. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avlönad tjänsteman, avlönad (salaried). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

maaşlı hakim (stipendiary magistrate), maaşlı (gainful, paid, salaried), ücretli (gainful, mercenary, paid, salaried, wage earner). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

що одержу" платню (salaried), оплачуваний (gainful, paid, payable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người được hưởng lương, được hưởng lương. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Stipendiary

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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