Usually means: Payment received for services rendered.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. emolument: Merriam-Webster
  2. emolument: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emolument: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emolument: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emolument: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emolument, emolument: Wordnik
  7. emolument: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emolument: Wiktionary
  9. emolument: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emolument: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emolument: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. emolument: Dictionary.com
  13. emolument: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Emolument: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emolument: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emolument: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emolument: Rhymezone
  18. Emolument: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emolument: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. emolument: FreeDictionary.org
  21. emolument: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. emolument: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. emolument: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Emolument: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. emolument: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. emolument: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. emolument: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. emolument: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. emolument: Legal dictionary
  10. emolument: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emolument: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emolument: Medical dictionary

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noun:  (formal) Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.

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