noun
- profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages.
noun
- the profit arising from an office or employment, usually in the form of fees or wages
mid-15c., from Middle French émolument and directly from Latin emolumentum “profit, gain,” perhaps originally “payment to a miller for grinding corn,” from emolere “grind out,” from ex- “out” (see ex-) + molere “to grind” (see mallet).