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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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