STIPEND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stipend mean? 

• STIPEND (noun)
  The noun STIPEND has 1 sense:

1. a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose

  Familiarity information: STIPEND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STIPEND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("stipend" is a kind of...):

regular payment (a payment made at regular times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stipend"):

prebend (the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon)

Derivation:

stipendiary (pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance)

 Context examples 

Again, only new or expanded program initiatives should be reported-e.g., an increase in training related only to the increase in stipends should not be reported as an Infrastructure Initiative.

(Infrastructure Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

Stipends or grants-in-aid granted by foundations or institutions to individuals for study.

(Fellowship Program, NCI Thesaurus)

My object, when the contest within myself between stipend and no stipend, baker and no baker, existence and non-existence, ceased, was to take advantage of my opportunities to discover and expose the major malpractices committed, to that gentleman's grievous wrong and injury, by—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Being a very honest little creature, and unwilling to disgrace the memory I was going to leave behind me at Murdstone and Grinby's, I considered myself bound to remain until Saturday night; and, as I had been paid a week's wages in advance when I first came there, not to present myself in the counting-house at the usual hour, to receive my stipend.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)