emolument
Syllables: emo·lu·ment/ɪˈmɒljʊmənt/US/əˈmɑljəmənt/
emolument noun: payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
Noun
emolument (plural emoluments)
- Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
- No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.1787, Philadelphia Convention, United States Constitution
- Even when a mere child I began my travels, and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city, to the frequent alarm of my parents, and the emolument of the town-crier.1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Author’s Account of Himself”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle...
- Synonyms:
- compensation, fee, payment, remuneration
- Material benefit, either direct or indirect.
- Near-synonym: inurement
- Synonyms:
- inurement
emolument meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
emolument in Tamil
- ஊதியம், சம்பளம், திரளம், பணிப் பணம்
emolument in Urdu
- یافت
emolument in Bengali
- বেতন, পারিশ্রমিক
emolument in Malayalam
- payment, salary, pay
- വേതനം, ശമ്പളം, ലാഭങ്ങൾ, നേട്ടങ്ങൾ, മാനുഷം, മാസപ്പടി
More languagesFewer languages
- emolument in Kannada
- ಪಡಪು, ಸಂಬಳ
- emolument in Malay
- emolumen
- emolument in Indonesian
- emolumen
Examples of emolument in a sentence
- Cooke had hired at Far Harbor [...] had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- Plus, the Department of Justice has argued in the past that SGEs are subject to the emoluments clause, which means they cannot take payments from foreign governments.2025 April 23, Zachary B. Wolf, “Elon Musk’s government role gets even murkier”, in CNN:
Synonyms of emolument
Forms of emolument
| plural | emoluments |
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Origin of emolument
From Middle English emolument, from Old French emolument, from Latin ēmolumentum.
Words formed from emolument
Questions about emolument
- What does emolument mean?
- Emolument means payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.
- What is emolument in Tamil?
- Emolument in Tamil is ஊதியம், சம்பளம், திரளம். See Emolument meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use emolument in a sentence?
- Cooke had hired at Far Harbor [...] had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
- What part of speech is emolument?
- Emolument is a noun.
- How do you pronounce emolument?
- Emolument is pronounced /ɪˈmɒljʊmənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of emolument?
- The plural of emolument is emoluments.
Words near emolument in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: emolument (page history and authors); emolument (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emolument (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emolument (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emolument (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); emolument (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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