different between emolument vs award

English

Etymology

From Middle English emolument, from Old French emolument, from Latin ?molumentum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m?lj?m(?)nt/, /?-/, /-j?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m?lj?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: emo?lu?ment

Noun

emolument (plural emoluments)

1. (formal) Payment for employment or an office; compensation for a job, which is usually monetary.

   Synonyms: compensation, fee, payment

Derived terms

• emolumental

Translations

See also

• in kind

Further reading

• remuneration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??w??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

award (plural awards)

1. (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
2. (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
3. A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
4. (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.

Derived terms

• Academy Award
• award ceremony
• book award
• Darwin Award

Translations

Verb

award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)

1. (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge

   the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant

   • To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.

2. (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
3. (transitive) To give (an award).

   Synonym: bestow

   Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.

4. (transitive) To give (a person) an award.

   He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Synonyms

• (make or grant an award): crown

Derived terms

• awardable
• awardee
• awarder
• awarding
• awardment
• reaward

Translations

Further reading

• award in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• award in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warda, adraw