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Grants & allowances
anti-subsidy
benefit
benny
bursary
civil list
corporate welfare
cost-of-living allowance
expense
featherbed
fellowship
fringe benefit
nonforfeitable
nonforfeiture
parachute payments
pension
personal allowance
pin money
redundancy payment
scrappage
unemployment

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stipend | American Dictionary

stipend
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstɑɪ·pend, -pənd/
a fixed, regular income that is usually not based on an amount of work done:
As a student advisor, she gets a monthly stipend from the college.

stipend | Business English

stipend
noun[ C ]
 FINANCEuk /ˈstaɪpend/us
an amount of money that is paid regularly to someone, especially for work or training that is usually unpaid:
An $80-a-month stipend covers each volunteer's personal expenses.
In addition to their regular salaries, the coaches receive a stipend of up to $6,000 a year.
an annual/monthly stipend

Examples of stipend

stipend
More transparently, some officials in receipt of stipends, both craftsmen and estate officials, received wages as well.
I have found no evidence of grain stipends for them.
Salaries and stipends must be pegged to the actual cost of living with automatic raises to compensate for inflation.
Amongst the employees who undertook the 231 administrative tasks identified in the bursars' accounts there were some who, in addition to annual stipends, received expenses.
Throughout the eighteenth century, pensioners' cash stipends were supplemented with assistance in kind received from the overseers, and, to a lesser extent, from charities.
Payments for his services also lagged far behind stipends paid to the principals, librettists, choreographers and scenographers.
Moreover, paying their stipends was a heavy burden on the shogun or the local prince (daimyo).
Materially the average incumbent approximated to the middling sort of tenant farmer; the unbeneficed, who lived on stipends, to smallholders, or even labourers.
He does it for vanity, to get a reputation, to obtain stipends and official positions.
He needs therefore to think about stipends and houses and church buildings.
Levels of salary would have to be attractive, given the opportunities of academic economists of adding to their stipends.
However, further study demonstrates that even elderly men who had no dependents received larger average stipends than did elderly women.
Their emoluments are termed "stipends," as this suits the administrators, enabling them to bypass all labor laws.
The people who work on the pool receive, besides a part of the output from the pool, a stipend as well.
All training sites provided trainees with a computer and workspace, and some provided a stipend.
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