HOW TO PRONOUNCE
gratuity
/ɡɹəˈtuːətɪ/
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What does gratuity mean?
noun
- An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
- Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
- Euphemistic form of bribe.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡɹəˈtuːətɪ/
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A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.
The debtor, for fear of a very severe execution, was obliged, without any further gratuity, to vote for the candidate whom the creditor recommended.
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These men get a small gratuity from government, but the villagers also pay them a small sum, which they assess according to individual means.
I was assured that bankers entrust them with large sums in gold, which they carry some hundred and twenty miles, by unknown tracks, for a small gratuity.
Thus many that had no share in the murder wetted their hands and swords in blood, and came and showed them to Otho, presenting memorials suing for a gratuity.