gratuity
IPA: grʌtˈuɪti
noun
- An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
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Examples of "gratuity" in Sentences
- A gratuity is a symbol of thanks for doing a good job.
- If you feel like we did a good job AT LEAST let us know, and gratuity is nice too.
- He is not likely to grudge being knocked up at night when a gratuity is to be the result.
- The concierge handed her into the cab, and smiled his thanks when the gratuity was the size he had hoped for.
- This gratuity was always paid while the duke lived, and was continued by the present duke till Robert's death.
- # Prior to this bill, the family of a US troop killed in action would only receive a $12,000 death gratuity from the government.
- In the progress of society, the business of advocating causes became a distinct profession; and then it was usual to pay a fee in advance, which was called a gratuity or present.
- For indeed, the egoistic and vain gratuity of what some people call "art for art's sake" has been so reviled that it is no small recompense for me to see my writings, which have had no greater ambition than to raise themselves to that level, ranked among the instruments of revolutionary and upsetting action.
- In the future the annual payment will be only one-half to each Indian of the amount paid this year, for the gratuity was the same as the payment, and the heavy expense of feeding the Indians while at the place of meeting and on their journey home, will be avoided by the payment being made at or near their own reserves.
- While natural merit suppresses the idea of gratuity in grace, the same cannot be affirmed of natural prayer (preces naturae, oratio naturalis), as long as we do not ascribe to it any intrinsic right to be heard and to God a duty to answer it -- a right and duty which are undoubtedly implied in supernatural petitions (cf. John, xvi, 23 sq.).
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