How do you use Emoluments in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Emoluments meaning
plural of emolument
Using Emoluments
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of emolument
- In the example corpus, emoluments often appears in combinations such as: the emoluments, emoluments clause, and emoluments.
Context around Emoluments
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Emoluments
- In this selection, "emoluments" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, see, salaries, willful, clause, accounted and paid stand out and add context to how "emoluments" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agency whose emoluments are paid and be paid emoluments and be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "emoluments" sits close to words such as absentees, accruing and aerosmith, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with emoluments
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Personal emoluments accounted for 26.7 percent of total expenditure. (10 words)
Under this section, any sum paid or payable to employees is considered as ’emoluments’. (14 words)
With this new minimum wage, State workers will receive a significant boost in their emoluments. (15 words)
Along with accusing Trump of obstructing justice for essentially the same reasons as Sherman and Green, these lawmakers accused the president of violating the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause due to his alleged business conflicts of interest. (37 words)
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has challenged Nigerians to a debate on the real essence of the National Assembly vis-a-vis the emoluments of the members, which many citizens consider to be bogus. (36 words)
The officers disclosed that despite observed efforts by the government to improve their emoluments and working conditions, more still need to be done in order for any officer especially those usually in the frontline. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
But then in this one, we see emoluments, the spending and emoluments in this current year was $5.9 million.
Coal India said that a 19% minimum guaranteed benefit on emoluments including basic salary, variable dearness allowance, special duty allowance and attendance bonus, and a 25% increase in allowances have been agreed upon.
It is also about the relativity of the salaries, emoluments and allowances of key government officials compared to other workers and employees of the public sector.
This is coming from a public agency whose emoluments are paid by taxpayers who are meant to stand for the generality of citizens against exploitation.
While many states have observed that willful emoluments to corps members in their respective states, Gombe State has been working with the corps members without stipends for them over the years.
Following the protest, 50 per cent of the emoluments were paid, but Durowaiye-Herberts emphasised that this was only a partial victory.
With this new minimum wage, State workers will receive a significant boost in their emoluments.
Personal emoluments accounted for 26.7 percent of total expenditure.
The 600 workers that are being sacked are primarily lower cadre employees whose salaries are negligible when compared with the humongous emoluments paid to their American expatriate counterparts.
The officers disclosed that despite observed efforts by the government to improve their emoluments and working conditions, more still need to be done in order for any officer especially those usually in the frontline.
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has challenged Nigerians to a debate on the real essence of the National Assembly vis-a-vis the emoluments of the members, which many citizens consider to be bogus.
The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan provides for Members of the National Legislature to be paid emoluments and be provided with facilities as determined by law.
Under this section, any sum paid or payable to employees is considered as ’emoluments’.
Along with accusing Trump of obstructing justice for essentially the same reasons as Sherman and Green, these lawmakers accused the president of violating the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause due to his alleged business conflicts of interest.
Emoluments lawsuit: Since Trump was preparing to take office, there about whether his continued ownership of the Trump Organization meant he was violating the US Constitution.
Ethics experts say the constitutional emoluments clause was created by the Founding Fathers to ensure that government officials act with the interests of the American public in mind instead of their own pocketbooks.
Fayose said this after Fayemi told labour leaders on Tuesday that the workers in the state civil service were currently being owed N57billion as arrears of unpaid salaries and emoluments.
First, the suit is brought directly under the Constitution without a statutory cause of action, seeking to enforce the Emoluments Clauses which, by their terms, give no rights and provide no remedies.
I think that the House will find him guilty of — worthy of impeachment because of the emoluments clause.
Opponents of President Donald Trump have argued that the hotel he owns in Washington, D.C., violates the emoluments clause, since foreign officials have stayed there while visiting the United States.
Common combinations with emoluments
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the emoluments 14×
- emoluments clause 12×
- and emoluments 6×
- emoluments and 3×
- emoluments of 3×
- emoluments lawsuit 3×
- emoluments were 2×
- their emoluments 2×
- other emoluments 2×
- as emoluments 2×