1. a payment given to a professional person for services for which fees are not legally or traditionally required
Usage: formal

Examples

• The guest speaker received a modest honorarium for her lecture.
• The university offered an honorarium to the visiting professor.
• He declined the honorarium and donated his time for free.
• The board approved a small honorarium for the volunteer coordinator.
• She was surprised to receive an honorarium for judging the competition.
• The honorarium barely covered his travel expenses to the conference.