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emolument

[ih-mol-yuh-muhnt] / ɪˈmɒl jə mənt /
NOUN
payment
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The domestic emoluments clause provides for the president to receive a fixed salary and bars him from receiving “Any other emolument from the United States or any of them.”

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

Article II, Section 1 and Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution prohibit the president in particular and public officials in general from receiving any emolument from domestic or foreign sources while in office.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2024

The third judge on the panel, A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr., focused on what constitutes an illegal emolument.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2019

The foreign emolument prohibition covers anything of value from a foreign government.

From Washington Times Nov. 2, 2018

They fall on to the floor, and are sprinkled with salt water, and are again smelted with ore and litharge, and become an emolument to the proprietors.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola




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