All 6 Uses of
emolument
in
David Copperfield
- …containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects within the immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries, should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose, leased by the registrars for their Own private emolument, unsafe, not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the important documents it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, a mercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees from the public, and crammed the…†
Chpt 31-33
- That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- That disadvantage is not diminished, when that pressure necessitates the drawing of stipendiary emoluments, before those emoluments are strictly due and payable.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'My employer, ma'am — Mr. Heep — once did me the favour to observe to me, that if I were not in the receipt of the stipendiary emoluments appertaining to my engagement with him, I should probably be a mountebank about the country, swallowing a sword-blade, and eating the devouring element.†
Chpt 49-51
- ' "The stipendiary emoluments in consideration of which I entered into the service of — HEEP," ' always pausing before that word and uttering it with astonishing vigour, ' "were not defined, beyond the pittance of twenty-two shillings and six per week.†
Chpt 52-54
- Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument?†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(emolument) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment -- usually in the form of wages or fees