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roy·al·ty       [roi-uhl-tee] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -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.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME roialte < OF. See royal, -ty2]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
roy·al·ty       (roi'əl-tē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. roy·al·ties
    1. A person of royal rank or lineage.
    2. Monarchs and their families considered as a group.
    3. The granting of a right by a monarch to a corporation or an individual to exploit specified natural resources.
    4. The payment for such a right.
    5. A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.
    6. A share in the proceeds paid to an inventor or a proprietor for the right to use his or her invention or services.
  2. The lineage or rank of a monarch.
  3. The power, status, or authority of a monarch.
  4. Royal quality or bearing.
  5. A kingdom or possession ruled by a monarch.
  6. A right or prerogative of the crown, as that of receiving a percentage of the proceeds from mines in the royal domain.
    1. The granting of a right by a monarch to a corporation or an individual to exploit specified natural resources.
    2. The payment for such a right.
    3. A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.
    4. A share in the proceeds paid to an inventor or a proprietor for the right to use his or her invention or services.
    1. A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.
    2. A share in the proceeds paid to an inventor or a proprietor for the right to use his or her invention or services.
  9. A share of the profit or product reserved by the grantor, especially of an oil or mining lease. Also called override.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
royalty 
1398," 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 1483. 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).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
royalty

noun
1. payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property; "he received royalties on his book" 
2. royal persons collectively; "the wedding was attended by royalty" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
royalty

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.


[Chapter:] Business and Economics


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Royalty

Im*pe`ri*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Imperialities. 1. Imperial power.

2. An imperial right or privilegs. See Royalty.

The late empress having, by ukases of grace, relinquished her imperialities on the private mines, viz., the tenths of the copper, iron, silver and gold. --W. Tooke.

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