emolument

See also: émolument

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɒljʊmənt/, /ɛ-/, /-jə-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈmɑljəmənt/
• Hyphenation: emo‧lu‧ment

Noun

emolument (plural emoluments)

1. (formal) Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.

   Synonyms: compensation, fee, payment, remuneration

   • 1787, Philadelphia Convention, United States Constitution:

     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.

   • 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, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     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.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     The skipper Mr. 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.

   • 2025 April 23, Zachary B. Wolf, “Elon Musk’s government role gets even murkier”, in CNN‎:

     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.

   1. Multure to a miller.

Derived terms

• emolumental
• emolumentary

Translations

payment for an office or employment

Bulgarian: заплата (bg) f (zaplata), възнаграждение (bg) n (vǎznagraždenie) Catalan: emolument m Chinese: Mandarin: 報酬 / 报酬 (zh) (bàochou), 酬金 (zh) (chóujīn) Dutch: bijverdienste (nl) f Finnish: korvaus (fi) French: émolument (fr) m German: Vergütung (de) f, Honorar (de) n, Diät (de) f Indonesian: emolumen (id) Italian: emolumento (it) m Malay: emolumen (ms) Ottoman Turkish: اجرت (ücret) Polish: uposażenie (pl) n Portuguese: emolumento (pt) Romanian: onorariu (ro) n, leafă (ro) f, salariu (ro) n, răsplată (ro) f, plată (ro) Russian: вознагражде́ние (ru) n (voznagraždénije), гонора́р (ru) m (gonorár), опла́та (ru) f (opláta), пла́та (ru) f (pláta) Spanish: emolumento (es) m, pie de altar m (religious) Swedish: arvode (sv) n

See also

• in kind

Further reading

• remuneration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French émolument or Latin emolumentum.

Noun

emolument n (plural emolumente)

1. profit

Declension

Declension of emolument

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	emolument	emolumentul		emolumente	emolumentele
genitive-dative	emolument	emolumentului		emolumente	emolumentelor
vocative	emolumentule			emolumentelor

References

• emolument in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN