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Royalty

[roi-uhl-tee]

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noun, plural -ties.

royal persons collectively.

royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty: to be elevated to royalty.

a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.

royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.

a royal domain; kingdom; realm.

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character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.

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.

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.

a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.

10.

the payment made for such a right.

COLLAPSE

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English roialte < Old French. See royal, -ty²

Related forms

non·roy·al·ty, noun, plural -ties.

pre·roy·al·ty, noun, plural -ties.

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Example Sentences

Songwriters and music publishers get royalty payments, but musicians and record companies do not.

Rare is the academic author who considers likely royalty payments before embarking on a research project.

They certainly leave open the potential of subsequent development at royalty rates that make sense to investors.

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Songwriters and music publishers get royalty payments, but musicians and record companies do not.

Rare is the academic author who considers likely royalty payments before embarking on a research project.

They certainly leave open the potential of subsequent development at royalty rates that make sense to investors.

Tibetan royalty and nomads alike took to tea for good reasons.

What kind of idiot thinks that for thousands of years only royalty stubbed their toes.

The populace lines up on the main thoroughfare to watch hours of marching bands, homemade floats and home-crowned royalty.

Manson had received since signing a royalty agreement earlier this year.

Publishers have already figured this out and enacting more copyright laws and complicated royalty hurdles.

These are some of the foundational concepts of royalty.

However, the tradition of nobility and royalty was based upon the same.

The utter failure of the webcasting business hasn't slowed down the recording industry's insistence on a higher royalty rate.

If royalty and aristocracy would accept the new beliefs, and thus give a lead, so much the better.

Serpollet, had the honor of cruising around with some royalty.

For years, internet radio insiders have warned that internet royalty rates are too high to allow innovators to flourish.

Rather than wrangling over royalty rates and ownership stakes with.

Fonteyn had an insouciance which allowed her to stray across boundaries and emerge as crisp as royalty itself.

Residents from royalty to courtiers dropped everything and ran, and the excavation revealed the.

Blackboard is seeking an undisclosed amount of damages and royalty payments.

They say a new royalty regime could deter future investment and, in some cases, violate existing agreements.

It is a tough blow to a lion's pride when the jungle royalty must depend on humans for its reproductive success.

Indian royalty and poets often visit the paper to offer content and accolades.

And all it asked was the right to extract a royalty for any marketable treatments that might emerge from the use of its database.

Although royalty rates have come down they are a hefty burden on companies that have attracted customers at such a rate.

Fortunately there's not much pressure to perform for royalty anymore.

These are royalty payments to the mineral owner and are above and beyond lease fees.

Previously, only royalty and soldiers had used watches.

Decide to be happy, remember that you are living better than the royalty of a hundred years ago.

The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

Why crib about royalty spectetors got their money's worth.

Reports of royalty afflicted with influenza popped up in papers interspersed with bits of other news.

He prefers to keep out of the spotlight, content to supplement his monthly income with the occasional royalty cheque.

He had been quiet until then, despite messages of support coming in from royalty around the world.

The latter would not mind some type of scientific royalty these days.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

royalty (ˈrɔɪəltɪ)

—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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Etymonline

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

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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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American Heritage

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.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

royalty

in law, the payment made to the owners of certain types of rights by those who are permitted by the owners to exercise the rights. The rights concerned are literary, musical, and artistic copyright; patent rights in inventions and designs; and rights in mineral deposits, including oil and natural gas. The term originated from the fact that in Great Britain for centuries gold and silver mines were the property of the crown; such "royal" metals could be mined only if a payment ("royalty") were made to the crown

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