noun
- fixed regular payments, especially salaries paid to clergy or allowances paid to students
Examples
- Graduate students receive monthly stipends to cover living expenses.
- The church provides modest stipends for its ministers.
- Research assistants earn stipends while completing their degrees.
- The fellowship includes tuition waiver plus stipends for books.
- Many interns work for small stipends rather than full salaries.
- The university increased stipends for teaching assistants this year.