stipendiary

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Stipendiary steward Robert Sidebottom said the rider "didn't make all reasonable substantial effort to achieve the best possible placing."

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2013

Accordingly, in 1876 the Hon. David Laird was appointed Lieutenant-Governor, with a small Council to assist him consisting of Colonel MacLeod of the Police and Matthew Ryan and Hugh Richardson, Stipendiary Magistrates.

From Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George)

Stipendiary magistracies and paid offices of any kind, if not too laborious, are always acceptable for sons, nephews, cousins, and influential supporters.

From The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by Allen, William Ferneley

The Stipendiary achieved marvellously the illusion that to him a murder by a Town Councillor in St. Luke's Square was quite an everyday matter.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

And the fourth edition of the Signal, containing a full report of what the Stipendiary and the barrister had said to each other, was being cried.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold