stipend

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈstaɪpɛnd/, /-pn̩d/

Noun

stipend (plural stipends)

1. A scholarship granted to a student.
2. A fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance.

   My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.

Synonyms

• allowance

Translations

• French: bourse
• Italian: borsa di studio
• Portuguese: bolsa
• Russian: стипе́ндия

Translations

• French: rente
• German: Besoldung, Gehalt, Stipendium
• Italian: stipendio, salario, paga, onorario, paghetta
• Portuguese: estipêndio
• Russian: посо́бие
• Spanish: estipendio, salario, semanada (weekly)

Verb

stipend (stipends, present participle stipending; past and past participle stipended)

1. (now rare) To provide (someone) with a stipend.
   • 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 122:

     As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.

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