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Emolument


Definition:

  • (n.) The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although federal ethics laws do not directly apply to the presidency, Trump risks a constitutional violation under the emoluments clause.
  • (2) The legal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics filed a federal lawsuit against Trump shortly after his inauguration accusing the president of breaching the emoluments clause of the constitution, which prohibits receiving payments or gifts from foreign governments.
  • (3) Emolument said Goldman paid its managing directors well – at the top layer of investment bankers – but it appeared less generous than competitors for traders on the next rung down.
  • (4) While it is true that some rules on conflict of interest for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the US constitution known as the “emoluments clause” that bans elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments.
  • (5) For some, it’s all about the money: there is a strong correlation between these course admission statistics and those put out by salary benchmarking website Emolument , which used data from 55,000 individuals to work out which degrees help their graduates get rich quick.
  • (6) In Trump’s Washington, we don’t need all those checks and balances, ethics lawyers and emolument clauses.
  • (7) That decision, given the Trump Organisation’s reliance on foreign governments to grant valuable trademark licences and permits, may in fact contravene the United States constitution’s prohibition on presidents receiving gifts or any “emolument” from foreign governments.
  • (8) However, if businesses in which he had a stake benefit from payments from foreign governments or foreign state-owned companies, he would risk violating the “ emoluments clause ” of the constitution.
  • (9) Ben Cardin, the Democratic senator for Maryland, proposed a Senate resolution that Pres Trump obey the emoluments clause of the constitution, which forbids bribery (Trump had refused to put his holdings in a blind trust).
  • (10) Robert Benson, chief executive of Emolument, said banks from continental Europe, such as France’s Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, had the problem of matching pay from their less lucrative home market with high wage demands in London.
  • (11) It’s just a different thing.” While it is true that some rules on conflict of interest for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the US constitution known as the “emoluments clause” that bans elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments.
  • (12) That provision found in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the US constitution provides that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state”.
  • (13) The organisation intends to bring a legal challenge accusing the president of violating the US constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign governments at his hotels and other properties.
  • (14) Richard Painter, a chief ethics counsel to President George W Bush, said Trump must sell his businesses or risk violating the “emoluments clause”.
  • (15) Trump is, however, subject to the constitution’s emoluments clause, an anti-bribery provision that forbids the president from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”.
  • (16) Other experts agree that the emoluments clause could impact Trump’s businesses.
  • (17) If Donald Trump’s business arrangements involve his receiving payments, directly or indirectly, from a foreign government or an entity it controls, that would violate the emoluments clause,” Clark said.
  • (18) But attention has fallen on the emoluments clause of the constitution, which bars public office holders from receiving payments from foreign government officials.

Emolumental


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to an emolument; profitable.

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