royalties

Noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

1. The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
2. People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
   • Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61
3. A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
5. (broadly) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
6. To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
   • Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing

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