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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 9, 2008emolument \ih-MOL-yuh-muhnt\, noun: The wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation. The record indicates that few grandees who pleaded poverty to avoid service were left without substantial maintenance grants and emoluments and that the Crown gladly financed their luxurious military lifestyles. Although not very rich, he is easy in his circumstances and would not with a view to emolument alone wish for employment. And they are not obliged to follow those occupations, if they prefer leisure to emolument. Emolument derives from Latin emolumentum, originally a sum paid to a miller for grinding out one's wheat, from molere, "to grind." It is related to molar, the "grinding" tooth. | |||||||||
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