stipendiary

1. 1.

   (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases

   Synonymsstipendiary magistrate

   Broadermagistrate

   United Kingdom

Other forms of stipendiary

plural

stipendiaries·

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.

Questions about stipendiary

What does stipendiary mean?

stipendiary means "pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stipendiary?

stipendiary has 5 syllables: sti-pen-di-a-ry. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for stipendiary?

Close synonyms include compensated, remunerated, salaried, compensable, paying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stipendiary a common word?

stipendiary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.