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roy·al·ty
[roi-uh
l-tee] Pronunciation Key
[roi-uh
l-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. |
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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
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
royalty
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
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" |
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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
royalty
[Chapter:] Business and Economics
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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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