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Saltos de línea: emolu|ment
Pronunciación: /ɪˈmɒljʊm(ə)nt
, ɛ-/

Definición de emolument en inglés:


(usually emoluments) formal
A salary, fee, or profit from employment or office: the directors' emoluments
Más ejemplos en oraciones
salary, pay, wage(s), earnings, allowance, stipend, honorarium;
income, revenue, return, profit, gain, proceeds;
reward, compensation, premium, recompense
informal perks, pickings
formal perquisites


late Middle English: from Latin emolumentum, originally probably 'payment to a miller for grinding corn', from emolere 'grind up', from e- (variant of ex-) 'out, thoroughly' + molere 'grind'.

  • Emolument comes from Latin emolumentum which was probably, in its original use, a payment made to a miller for grinding corn. Latin emolere meant ‘to grind up’ (the prefix e- here adding the notion of ‘thoroughly’). Compare the less pretentious word ‘salary’ which started out as a ‘payment for salt’.

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