stipend

English

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Etymology

From Middle French stipende.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈstʌɪpɛnd/
• (US) IPA: /ˈstaɪ.pɨnd/, /ˈstaɪ.pɛnd/

Noun

stipend (plural stipends)

1. a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance

   My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.

Synonyms

• allowance

Coordinate terms

• pocket money

Derived terms

• stipendiary

Translations

fixed payment

• French: rente (fr) f
• German: Besoldung (de) f, Gehalt (de) n, Stipendium (de) n
• Hungarian: illetmény (hu)
• Icelandic: framfærslufé (is) n, lífeyrir (is) m, styrkur (is) m, (a scholarship) námsstyrkur (is) m

• Italian: stipendio (it) m, salario (it) m
• Russian: пособие (ru) (posóbije) n, (scholarship) стипендия (ru) (stipéndija)
• Scottish Gaelic: tuarasdal (gd) m
• Spanish: estipendio (es) m, salario (es) m

Verb

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

1. (now rare) To provide (someone) with a stipend.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 122:

     As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.