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stipending

stipending is the present participle and gerund of stipend.

Meaning of stipend

Verb

stipend (third-person singular simple present stipends, present participle stipending, simple past and past participle stipended)

  1. (historical, obsolete, transitive) To provide (someone) with a stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).
    • I, Sir, am a Phyſician, and am ſtipended in this Iland to bee ſo to the Gouernours of it: and I am much more carefull of their health, then of mine ovvn; ſtudying night & day, and vveighing the complexion of the Gouernour, that I may hit the better vpon the curing him, vvhenſoeuer hee falls ſicke...1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “How Sancho Demeaned Himselfe in His Gouernment”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant, Don Quixote of the...

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Questions about stipending

What is stipending the present participle and gerund of?
Stipending is the present participle and gerund of stipend.

Words near stipending in the dictionary

  1. stipendiary
  2. stipendiate
  3. stipendiated
  4. stipendiates
  5. stipendiating
  6. stipending
  7. stipendium
  8. stipendless
  9. stipends
  10. Stiperstones
  11. stipes

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