emoluments

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Nevertheless, the emoluments will be a sufficient inducement to keep me here, though they are not above a quarter part what some people suppose them It sickens me to look back to America.

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  • The new emoluments were approved at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs —  Zee News : India National
  • The new emoluments were approved at a meeting of the CCEA chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh —  rediff.com
  • In 1998, the directors received "emoluments" -- or payments -- totaling £688,570 ($946,577) while the operation reported profits of £1.03 million. —  WSJ.com: What's News US
  • His emoluments, as clerk, would be smaller than those he received as schoolmaster; but while he would not be able to discharge the duties of the latter for very much longer, for he felt the boys were getting too much for him, he would be able to perform the very easy work entailed by the clerkship for many years to come. —  A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
  • In that way lay advancement, emoluments, decorations, and the Tsar's favour. —  The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
 

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