emolument

• A certain emolument is also derived from the valuable mines of the country, though, poorly worked as they are, but small importance has as yet been ascribed to these as a source of revenue; yet the gold of Bhangtaphan is esteemed the purest and most ductile in the world. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
• My father had enjoyed two livings with a minor canonry in the cathedral, but the emolument was very small, and his income had not allowed him, as yet, to make any provision for us. —  Personal Recollections
• Latterly he has occupied a post of respectable emolument, and with sufficient leisure for the improvement of his literary tastes Besides contributing both in prose and verse to the local journals, and some of the periodicals, Mr White is the author of several publications. —  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
• Positions from which much emolument might be derived were offered him, but he answered them with a polite refusal. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• It was also a position of grave responsibility; and it ought to have been one of liberal emolument, but it was not. —  Benjamin Franklin

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