emoluments

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A form of emolument — Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of emolument

    She was urgent and suggestive and sympathetic; she threw herself into the vision of his achievements and emoluments as if to satisfy a little the sore hunger with which Nick's treachery had left her.

    1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC
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Chicago

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