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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
emolument is a noun meaning "compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)". It carries one recorded sense.
compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
“a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for emolument come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.