Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A payment given to a professional person for services for which fees are not legally or traditionally required.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fee for services rendered, especially by a physician or other professional person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fee offered to professional men for their services.
- noun (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Compensation for services that do not have a predetermined value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fee paid for a nominally free service
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But always before he reached the middle he struck for what they called his honorarium; and this troubled them, for the tale was appearing week by week as it was written.
Tommy and Grizel 1898
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If our honorarium is unsatisfactory, kindly telegraph us at once and state what you consider a fair price.
Chapter 40 2010
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And the honorarium is just a token, you understand …
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If I find out that a science reporter, say, received a $20,000 honorarium from the American Petroleum Institute, I would have legitimate grounds for concern regardless of any visible problems with their work.
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If our honorarium is unsatisfactory, kindly telegraph us at once and state what you consider a fair price.
Chapter 40 1908
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She also receives royalties from UpToDate and an honorarium from the Japanese
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Or they pay an honorarium, which is a word indicating that they know it isn't enough to count as proper paying!
If You Receive an Airborne Contaminant in the Mail... Is It Potpourri? Editorial Anonymous 2009
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But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is cense to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case.
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I propose to you to do the same thing, and you can make it a condition that for your subsequent works I will pay you the best honorarium, which is given only to our best-known (very few) novel writers, that is to say, fifty rubles for sixteen pages of printed matter.
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But let a client or patient make the experiment of omitting this little ceremony of the honorarium, which is _cense_ to be a thing entirely out of consideration between them, and mark how the learned gentleman will look upon his case.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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