stipendiary

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James Norris, the stipendiary magistrate, was known as a man of urbanity and gentlemanly manners, but his colleague the Rev William Hay was fiercer.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2018

It's unlikely Jesus would have known Latin beyond a few words, says Jonathan Katz, stipendiary lecturer in Classics at Oxford University.

From BBC • May 27, 2014

The moment I knew I was in trouble was when the stipendiary steward asked the trainer, 'Is it possible for a jockey to make a horse bleed during the course of the race?'

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2013

Later in the course of the inquiry the trainer and the stipendiary stewards were talking in Hindi and I couldn't understand what they were saying.

From The Guardian • Mar. 26, 2013

Delhi, the capital of the Great Mogul, fell into the hands of the English, and the emperor himself became a stipendiary of a company of merchants.

From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John