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emoluments

[ih-mol-yuh-muhnt]

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noun

profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages.

Origin:
1470–80; < Latin ēmolumentum advantage, benefit, equivalent to ēmol(ere) to grind out, produce by grinding (ē- e- + molere to grind; see mill¹) + -u-, variant before labials of -i- -i- + -mentum -ment

Synonyms
earnings, pay, recompense, stipend, honorarium.

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emolument

1435, from L. emolumentum "profit, gain," perhaps originally "payment to a miller for grinding corn," from emolere "grind out," from ex- "out" + molere "to grind."

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"Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power."

-Andrew Jackson

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emoluments

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