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roy⋅al⋅ty
[roi-uh
l-tee]
| 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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Royalty
Roy"al*ty\, n.; pl. Royalties. [OF. roialt['e], royault['e], F. royaut['e]. See Royal, and cf. Regality.]1. The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. --Holyday. 2. The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty. For thus his royalty doth speak. --Shak. 3. An emblem of royalty; -- usually in the plural, meaning regalia. [Obs.] Wherefore do I assume These royalties, and not refuse to reign? --Milton. 4. Kingliness; spirit of regal authority. In his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd. --Shak. 5. Domain; province; sphere. --Sir W. Scott. 6. That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality. 7. A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property. 8. Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.Cite This Source
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.
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royalty
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Royalty
A payment to an owner for the use of property, especially patents, copyrighted works, franchises or natural resources.
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Royalties are usually expressed as a percentage of the revenues obtained through the use of the owner's property.
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royalty
- The compensation that is paid to the owner of an asset based on income earned by the asset's user. For example, an oil company pays royalties to the owners of mineral rights, and a book publisher compensates its authors with royalty payments.
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Main Entry: roy·al·ty
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ties
1 : a right delegated (as to an individual or corporation) by a sovereign
2 a : a share of the profit or product reserved by the grantor esp. of an oil or mineral lease —compare OVERRIDING ROYALTY b : a payment made to an author or composer for each copy of a work sold or to an inventor for each article sold under a patent
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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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