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Meanings of gratuity in inglés

portugués
gorjeta
español
baksheesh

A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)

      baksheesh
      Usage of gratuity in inglés
      1
      Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
      Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
      2
      You may tip in cash or add a gratuity to your card.
      The Irish Times
      3
      After paying a small gratuity, they went on to the next shrine.
      Buddhism and Buddhists in China
      4
      With these instructions, and a very small gratuity, the Captain left me.
      Barry Lyndon
      5
      Romney was obliged to be content with a gratuity of twenty-five guineas.
      Art in England: Notes and Studies
      6
      The gratuity pay-out does not include other benefits for current ministers.
      Radio NZ
      7
      On leaving the castle we offered the woman the customary gratuity.
      Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
      8
      The boy took the gratuity, thanked her, and turned to go.
      The House Behind the Cedars
      9
      He drew a moral on this occasion from his own gratuity.
      Man and Wife
      10
      Occasionally it drifts into questionable gratuity, sometimes into sanitisation that lessens its impact.
      The Daily Telegraph
      11
      A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of imagination.
      Les Misérables
      12
      It'll take more than a generous gratuity to smooth that over.
      Hex and the city
      13
      The departing customer had left the usual gratuity under the saucer of his coffee-cup.
      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919
      14
      In most towns, the gratuity stopped there- asteakand a beer and a handshake.
      The last hero: a life of henry aaron
      15
      I flung him a gratuity, and begged him to desist.
      Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family / or, A Residence...
      16
      And then Ralph Somers told Clayton of the month's gratuity.
      The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
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      Translations for gratuity
      portugués
      gorjeta
      español
      baksheesh
      Gratuity through the time
      Gratuity across language varieties
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