stipend
English
Etymology
From Middle French stipende, from Latin stipendium (“pay, stipend”).
Noun
stipend (plural stipends)
- A scholarship granted to a student.
- 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.
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Translations
scholarship
fixed payment
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Verb
stipend (third-person singular simple present stipends, present participle stipending, simple past and past participle stipended)
- (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.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 122:
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin stipendium
Noun
stipend n (definite singular stipendet, indefinite plural stipend or stipender, definite plural stipenda or stipendene)
- a scholarship (grant made to support a student's education)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin stipendium
Noun
stipend n (definite singular stipendet, indefinite plural stipend, definite plural stipenda)
- a scholarship (grant, as above)
References
- “stipend” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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