Definition of "emolument" []

• Payment for an office or employment; compensation. (noun)

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• "To be true to their own interests they must be false to those of their constituents, for with a lobby backed by THE MONEYED RINGS, corporations and syndicates, emolument is theirs if they will but reciprocate."
• "The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them."
• "Without ‘been’, the clause can be interpreted as the active voice where the emolument is the subject."