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Meanings of gratuity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tip"
Examples for "tip"
1
Under that plan, the Victorian state government would also tip in money.
2
Interventions: A 200-W, cooled-tip RF probe system was used for all cases.
3
Federal agents started investigating the business after an anonymous tip last year.
4
The refugee figures for Europe are just the tip of the iceberg.
5
Wait about 15 minutes, during which time the shadow tip will move.
1
Moira was visible in the near distance; the wattles had swallowed Cumshaw.
2
Mr. Cumshaw left the Embassy in an aircar a few minutes later.
3
When he returned to the hut Abel Cumshaw was just getting up.
4
He's been out at the ranch with Mr. Cumshaw a lotta times.
5
Nothing had occurred as yet to connect Cumshaw with Mr. Jack Bradby.
1
He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
2
Give backsheesh with kind face, and not send poor Arab to Assouan.
3
I contented myself with giving him backsheesh, while my companion photographed him.
4
Give good backsheesh, and not sit down halfway and say: 'No top'!
5
It is like a three-tailed Pasha grumbling about an unsatisfactory backsheesh.
1
To step off the coach was to run the baksheesh gauntlet.
2
As long as they got their baksheesh, they simply didn't care what happened there.
3
From internal evidence it is not likely that it was made for baksheesh.]
4
It was general practice to pay baksheesh for objects found, in addition to the daily wage.
5
The crowd smiled now and began scrambling for the baksheesh, and so they got through in peace.
1
Nilratan spoke to the peons: "There has been no occasion for bakshish; you shan't have it."
2
The peons, grinning as before, answered: "The Babu-Sahib went to see the Magistrate-sowe have come for bakshish."
3
They rowed hard when the course was clear, encouraged by promises of liberal bakshish made by their employer at Desmond's prompting.
4
The soldiers behaved most helpfully and the brave and bold Jabberi had not yet once mentioned bakshish in our hearing and were most polite.
5
The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable "bakshish," the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.
1
We offer you five francs, and this includes a franc pourboire.
2
He examined the piece and demanded a pourboire.
3
No doubt it is a pourboire he wants.
4
For fifteen francs, plus always the pourboire, I will take you to Barcy, which was bombarded and burnt.
5
Then to Jefferson she added: "Give him a franc for a pourboire-thatmakes five francs altogether."
Usage of gratuity in English
1
Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
2
You may tip in cash or add a gratuity to your card.
3
After paying a small gratuity, they went on to the next shrine.
4
With these instructions, and a very small gratuity, the Captain left me.
5
Romney was obliged to be content with a gratuity of twenty-five guineas.
6
The gratuity pay-out does not include other benefits for current ministers.
7
On leaving the castle we offered the woman the customary gratuity.
8
The boy took the gratuity, thanked her, and turned to go.
9
He drew a moral on this occasion from his own gratuity.
10
Occasionally it drifts into questionable gratuity, sometimes into sanitisation that lessens its impact.
11
A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.
12
It'll take more than a generous gratuity to smooth that over.
13
The departing customer had left the usual gratuity under the saucer of his coffee-cup.
14
In most towns, the gratuity stopped there- asteakand a beer and a handshake.
15
I flung him a gratuity, and begged him to desist.
16
And then Ralph Somers told Clayton of the month's gratuity.
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