[ noun ] a fee paid for a nominally free service <noun.possession>
Honorarium \Hon`o*ra"ri*um\, Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, n. [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See {Honorary}, a.] 1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. --S. Longfellow.
2. (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. --Heumann.
The association also paid him a $2,000 honorarium for a speech.
And the third question involves whether royalties that I received from a book that I wrote were properly received as royalties, or whether they actually should have been reported in some other way as a gift or an honorarium.
"We would welcome pieces by him," says Alan Webber, managing editor of the Harvard Business Review, which pays an honorarium of just $500 to $700 an article.
Senior vice president Gordon MacKay said the company had invited Wright to speak to a management group about three years ago, and bought $2,000 worth of Wright's books instead of giving him an honorarium.
But the former president has not attracted huge crowds at some public speaking engagements, and he recently waived his $50,000 honorarium when a smaller-than-expected crowd turned out for a speech at Arizona State University.
Each Lasker award winner receives or shares a $15,000 honorarium.
But he must hope that earlier earnings will tide him over; his time on the panel will only provide an honorarium believed to be a few thousand pounds a year.
The Nebraska Committee for the Humanities pays speakers an honorarium of about $100 and expenses, Ms. Hood said.
Soka University provided funds for a trip to Tokyo and Seoul and also gave Dymally a $2,000 honorarium.
Mid-Continent purchased $1,000 worth of Wright's book in lieu of paying him an honorarium, but asked to receive only three books.
It made Wright $54,642.25 in what the House Ethics Committee charges were actually disguised honorarium payments that violated House limits.
(c) For purposes of determining the aggregate amount of honorariums received by a person during any calendar year, amounts returned to the person paying an honorarium before the close of the calendar year in which it was received shall be disregarded.
Former President Ronald Reagan is beginning a week in Japan that gives rich, new meaning to the word "honorarium."
In addition, the exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade each provided $500 honorarium to Roberts.