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a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose- Starting in 2008, he was awarded three fifths of a coaching stipend—roughly $240 a month.Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- His lodging stipend Don Jose spent on art supplies.Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- I wanted him to keep his stipend.Kiera Cass -- The Heir
- One day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend of ten francs: "The father must give them some education."Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- The officers got a small stipend from the Big Man, and they had been given a couple of government jeeps.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- But my living stipend from Mr. Bracegirdle made me feel a lot less awkward about throwing myself down in Hobie's household, unannounced.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- They would even pay me a stipend for my time.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- 'We are forgetting business, ma'am,' said the beadle; 'here is your porochial stipend for the month.'Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
- I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a monthly stipend.Veronica Roth -- Allegiant
- But you would also pay no rent and I'm sure I could manage a small extra stipend for your few responsibilities.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Our family receives a stipend of $50 a month for being missionaries.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- To save ten pounds from a stipend of eight pounds a month takes much patience and time, especially for a parson, who must dress in good black clothes.Alan Paton -- Cry, the Beloved Country
- By contrast, everyone in the group that received the cash stipends and other services made a full recovery.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Kun Sokkea's family is now getting the stipend.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- " What with the stipend and being up late, it's too much for me health."Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- He smiled to himself, once again blessing an older sister in Coventry who made the scotch possible with her monthly stipend.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
- CHAPTER VII — MRS. SPARSIT MR. BOUNDERBY being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
- The fact is, they have no other attraction or reason for keeping the field than a trifle of stipend, which is not sufficient to make them willing to die for you.Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
- Their discovery: when people are given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood.Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
- After a time—not, of course, at first—he might be with me as my curate, and he would have so much to do that his stipend would be nearly what I used to get as vicar.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
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