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honorarium

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. honorarium (noun)
  2. jus honorarium (noun)

hon·o·rar·i·um

noun \ˌä-nə-ˈrer-ē-əm\
plural hon·o·rar·ia\-ē-ə\ also hon·o·rar·i·ums

Definition of HONORARIUM

: a payment for a service (as making a speech) on which custom or propriety forbids a price to be set
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Examples of HONORARIUM

  1. We are willing to offer a small honorarium that we hope you will accept for judging the competition.

Origin of HONORARIUM

Latin, from neuter of honorarius
First Known Use: 1658

Rhymes with HONORARIUM

cinerarium, leprosarium, oceanarium, planetarium, sanitarium

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