emolument

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)

From Middle English emolument, from Old French emolument, from Latin ēmolumentum.

Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument? — David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Baby-linen—for babies then wore robes of state—afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument. — The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The emoluments of offices, therefore, can, in most cases, very well bear to be taxed. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

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