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əl noun, plural roy·al·ties.
1.
royal persons collectively.
2.
royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty: to be elevated to royalty.
3.
a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.
4.
royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.
5.
a royal domain; kingdom; realm.
6.
character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.
7.
a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right, for the use of it.
8.
an agreed portion of the income from a work paid to its author, composer, etc., usually a percentage of the retail price of each copy sold.
9.
a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.
10.
the payment made for such a right.
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| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | the rank, power, or position of a king or queen |
| 2. | a. royal persons collectively |
| b. one who belongs to the royal family | |
| 3. | any quality characteristic of a monarch; kingliness or regal dignity |
| 4. | a percentage of the revenue from the sale of a book, performance of a theatrical work, use of a patented invention or of land, etc, paid to the author, inventor, or proprietor |
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Word Origin & History
royalty
late 14c., "office or position of a sovereign," from O.Fr. roialte, from V.L. *regalitatem (nom. *regalitas), from L. regalis (see royal). Sense of "prerogatives or rights granted by a sovereign to an individual or corporation" is from late 15c. From that evolved more general
senses, such as "payment to a landowner for use of a mine" (1839), and ultimately "payment to an author, composer, etc." for sale or use of his or her work (1857).
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Cultural Dictionary
royalty definition
A payment made for some right or privilege, as when a publisher pays a royalty to an author for the author's granting the publisher the right to sell the author's book.
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Example sentences
Until now, oil firms have bid for concessions under which they pay taxes and royalties but keep the oil they produce.
Authors complain about used book sales that don't generate royalties.
These are cheap, and production royalties will be low.
Prodigious as were his royalties, his mode of life consumed them ruthlessly.
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