(a.) A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.
(a.) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.
(a.) Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.
(a.) Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree.
(a.) Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Our study shows the potential benefit of putting prostate cancer on a par with cancers such as breast cancer when it comes to genetic testing," said study co-leader Ros Eeles, professor of oncogenics at the Institute of Cancer Research and honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
(2) After retiring from the company on becoming honorary chairman, Agnelli retained an active role in the holding companies through which the family controls the carmaker.
(3) It was obviously, as I understood later, a case of Madiba [the honorary tribal name by which Mandela is largely known] being the great strategist that he is.
(4) Jack Reed of Rhode Island, an honorary and non-voting member of the committee due to his seat as ranking member of the Senate armed services committee, also signed the letter, which was dated Tuesday and publicly released on Wednesday.
(5) Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the Tory group's honorary president , defended the launch and said it would be ludicrous to cut off contact with Russian officials.
(6) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
(7) This rebranding exercise was seriously compromised last year when Jean-Marie Le Pen, who still held an honorary role in the party, repeated his view that gas chambers used to kill Jews in the Holocaust were “merely a detail in the history” of the second world war.
(8) The Nobel laureate has resigned as an honorary professor at University College London after saying to a conference in South Korea: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … [He’s 72.]
(9) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
(10) Coming off an honorary Oscar win at last month’s Governors Awards , Lee has delivered one of his most daring and accomplished films to date with Chi-Raq, which transplants the Greek play Lysistrata to modern-day Chicago, to offer a passionate treatise on the gun epidemic that has crippled America.
(11) She is currently the party's president and its honorary chairman.
(12) She went on to gain a masters degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and was an honorary senior research fellow at the School of Health Sciences at City University, London.
(13) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(14) The injury-weakened German champions went down 3-1 in their quarter-final first leg , leaving their hopes of making the Champions League semi-finals hanging by a thread, and Bayern’s honorary president and most distinguished defender was unsparing in his criticism of the team.
(15) Rubinstein said the decision to close the embassy, as well as honorary consulates in Troy, Michigan, and Houston, Texas, was “in consideration of the atrocities the Assad regime has committed against the Syrian people”.
(16) The former foreign secretary said the "inappropriate" photo was the last straw that had prompted him to quit as the group's honorary president.
(17) The article deals with the question how well known a new social service becomes which is completely based on voluntary and honorary work.
(18) There is also a Betamax videotape recording of him receiving an honorary professorship at the Modern Academy of the Humanities, an obscure Moscow university that offers distance learning.
(19) "It was only later that I became an honorary member of the Rat Pack…" I first got interested in Michael Munn's fantastical life when his biography of David Niven came out in 2009.
(20) Obama’s predecessor, Laura Bush, served as an honorary ambassador for the UN literacy decade, promotes health issues and serves on multiple boards.
Honorific
Definition:
(a.) Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morsi reacted to some of the allegations made by the leaked report against the army by promoting three generals this week to honorific titles – a move that epitomises his administration's apparent wish to brush the report's findings under the carpet.
(2) You would also use honorifics when talking about his mother.
(3) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(4) Morsi promoted three major-generals to the honorific titles of lieutenant-general.
(5) One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they mark who you regard as belonging to your own group and who you don't.
(6) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(7) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
(8) She insists: "If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public ... Stop addressing each other in deferential language."
(9) What I find inexcusable is his extending the use of honorifics to other government agencies: "The honorable members of the self-defence army have most kindly agreed to send their tanks."
(10) It sounded fresh, momentarily freeing us from the overuse of honorifics by our government officials.
(11) If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public.
(12) In the morning, Mansour promoted him to the honorific title of Field Marshal – a move that often foreshadows an Egyptian officer's resignation from the military.
(13) Rand Paul has removed some references to himself as “senator” from his websites and official Twitter account, and replaced the honorific with “doctor”, in an apparent rebranding to increase his appeal as a presidential candidate.
(14) As for your superior, he would not use honorifics to you but he would use them when talking about your mother.
(15) The term 'professional' is used with different meanings, sometimes as simply the opposite of 'amateur' but at other times in an honorific sense to suggest a calling in contrast to a job.
(16) "You mean Sayed Qassem Suleimani," he said, giving Suleimani an Arabic honorific reserved for the most esteemed of men.
(17) The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor .
(18) It is in this honorific sense that physicians, attorneys and members of the clergy serve as paradigm professionals.
(19) When he stepped down from chairing Brain of Britain on Radio 4 a year ago, she argued in the Guardian that his trademark, old-fashioned use of the competitors' "honorifics and surnames" gave the show "an in-built quaintness that long outlived the era it might have belonged to".
(20) "Maulawi" or more usually "Maulvi" is an honorific title denoting a senior religious scholar in the local Deobandi school of Islam.