0 a usually small amount of money paid to someone for a service for which no official charge is made:
1 a sum of money paid to someone for providing a service or winning a prize:
Each winner receives a commemorative medallion and a $2,000 honorarium.
To convey the value of their expertise and participation, we gave participants an honorarium and remuneration for child care and transportation costs.
In addition, but costs of physician's honoraria and funerals were not included in the day price, because these expenses had to be paid for separately.
The publisher gave him an honorarium of fifty talers and twenty-one copies of the book.
This handsome reward was roughly ten times his standard honorarium, or three or four times his annual salary.
She also sent a photograph of the site (now lost), and insisted on the importance of establishing his honorarium in advance.
It was community service with a tiny honorarium, the standard kind of thing physicians and scientists feel obligated and honored to do.
The priests' 'pay' was probably an honorarium rather than a salary; that is certainly true nowadays.
