as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
the stipend you'll receive as an intern will just barely cover your housing costs
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Recent Examples of stipend
Preparing For The New Economy To mitigate the effects of job displacement due to AI, some people are revisiting the concept of universal basic income (UBI)—a fixed, unconditional stipend paid to every citizen, regardless of employment status.
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Ilya Likhov, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Officials say the program allows individuals to avoid detention by arranging their own return flights, with travel costs covered and a $1,000 stipend provided.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
The cost is largely covered by his former employer, NBC News, which pays a monthly stipend for his health insurance as part of an early retirement benefit.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
My PhD was fully funded with tuition waivers and varying stipends per year from a combination of fellowships, scholarships, and teaching or research assistantships.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 22 Aug. 2025
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Ilya Likhov, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Officials say the program allows individuals to avoid detention by arranging their own return flights, with travel costs covered and a $1,000 stipend provided.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
The cost is largely covered by his former employer, NBC News, which pays a monthly stipend for his health insurance as part of an early retirement benefit.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
My PhD was fully funded with tuition waivers and varying stipends per year from a combination of fellowships, scholarships, and teaching or research assistantships.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stipend
Noun
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This provision prohibits salary-cap circumvention, meaning arrangements by teams to compensate players outside of their employment contracts.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Workers injured on the job can receive regular payments based on their salary, plus coverage of medical bills to treat their injuries.—
TOM KERTSCHER,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not only in terms of performance and Bundesliga survival, but also in the worth (and desirability) of some of these individual players, whose success could help Bremen — a traditional club, but with a modest wage spend — move up the food chain.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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The contract with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 350 runs through April 20, 2028 and calls for a 3% increase in wages for the first year and additional increases of 2% to 3% in following years, depending on the increases to employee health/dental premiums.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Stipend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stipend. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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