[
UK
/ɡɹætjˈuːɪti/
]
[ US /ɡɹəˈtuɪti/ ]
[ US /ɡɹəˈtuɪti/ ]
NOUN
- an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation
- a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
How To Use gratuity In A Sentence
- Perhaps the most remarkable proposition in Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate, therefore, is the controversial assertion that gratuity-or as the official English translation frequently reads, "gratuitousness" - is essential to economic life. Catholic Community Speaks | AmericanCatholic.org
- II. iii.27 (175,9) [I did impeticoat thy gratility] T.is, Sir T. Hammer tells us, is the same with _impocket thy gratuity_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
- Craving forgiveness for the liberty I am now taking, I have only to add, by your Grace's desire exprest in a letter to my early friend Capel Lofft Esq, that the Annual amount of the Gratuity I have recived is Fifteen Pounds. Letter 271
- He added that the retirement gratuity had been increased following negotiations which had been accepted by the union side.
- However, a special gratuity paid to a driver, for example at Christmas, may not be taxable.
- Government has been implored to intervene in the labour stand-off between the company and its workers following failure by management to pay gratuity to over 400 employees.
- Lobbyist Kevin A. Ring, 40, faces charges of conspiracy, fraud and making an illegal gratuity as part of a lavish four-year scheme that ladled out more than $1 million in meals, tickets and trips to federal officials in exchange for benefits to clients of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Retrial of Abramoff lobbyist Ring starts, tests corruption fight in capital
- But for the amount of work we do, a small gratuity is always appreciated.
- It was unanimously decided to give a gratuity to the Captain in acknowledgement of his services.
- Low-lying nylon-strung verdure cohabited the same space as vocal powwows, a move straight out of the Neutral Milk Hotel gratuity bible.