honorarium Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a fee paid for a nominally free service

WordNet

Hon`o*ra"ri*um, Hon"or*a*ry noun (Also<
  • Honorarium
  • Honorary
)
Etymology
L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.
Definitions
  1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
  2. (Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.

Webster 1913