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English
Etymology
From Middle French gratuité (from Old French gratuite) or directly from Medieval Latin gratuitas (“a free gift”), from Latin gratuitus (“freely given, free”); see gratuitous.
Pronunciation
Noun
gratuity (plural gratuities)
- An additional payment given freely as thanks for service.
- Euphemistic form of fee, in contexts where such additional payments have been made obligatory.
- Euphemistic form of bribe.
Synonyms
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Translations
reward provided freely, without obligation
- Bulgarian: паричен подарък m (paričen podarǎk)
- Czech: spropitné (cs) n, dýško (cs) n, diškrece f
- Dutch: fooi (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: trinkmono
- Estonian: jootraha
- Finnish: juomaraha (fi)
- French: pourboire (fr) m
- German: Zuwendung (de) f, Geldgeschenk (de) n, Gratifikation (de) f
- Hindi: उपदान (hi) m (updān)
- Hungarian: borravaló (hu), (to health workers) hálapénz (hu)
- Italian: mancia (it) f
- Latin: dōnātīvum n
- Ottoman Turkish: مارده (marda)
- Persian: انعام (fa) (an'âm), شتل (fa) (šatal)
- Polish: napiwek (pl) m
- Portuguese: gorjeta (pt) f
- Romanian: bacșiș (ro) n
- Russian: бонус (ru) m (bonus)
- Spanish: dádiva (es) f, gratificación (es) f, propina (es) f, yapa (es) f, ñapa (es) f, llapa (es) f, ipegüe m
- Ukrainian: чайові́ (čajoví)
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Further reading
- “gratuity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “gratuity”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.