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Stipendiary

noun
(pl. stipendiaries)
1.
(United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases.  Synonym: stipendiary magistrate.






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"Stipendiary" Quotes from Famous Books



... which has generously given the country two new judges, called Lord Justices, two additional Vice Chancellors, and a swarm of paid justices, in the shape of county court judges and stipendiary magistrates, has exercised economy with regard to judicial salaries. The annual stipends of the two Chief Justices, fixed in 1825 at L10,000 for the Chief of the King's Bench, and L8000 for the Chief of the Common Pleas, have been reduced, in the former case to L8000 ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... doubt doing his best to express the attitude of society toward these wearily heroic defendants, but he seemed to be merely rude and unfair to Ann Veronica. He was not, it seemed, the proper stipendiary at all, and there had been some demur to his jurisdiction that had ruffled him. He resented being regarded as irregular. He felt he was human wisdom prudentially interpolated.... "You silly wimmin," he said over and over again ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Stipendiary" :   paid, United Kingdom, U.K., magistrate, Great Britain, UK, stipend, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain



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