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honoraria

[on-uh-rair-ee-uhm]

hon·o·rar·i·um

[on-uh-rair-ee-uhm]
noun, plural -rar·i·ums, -rar·i·a [-rair-ee-uh] .
1.
a payment in recognition of acts or professional services for which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set: The mayor was given a modest honorarium for delivering a speech to our club.
2.
a fee for services rendered by a professional person.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin honōrārium fee paid on taking office, noun use of neuter of honōrārius honorary
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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