[ UK /ɡɹætjˈuːɪti/ ]
[ US /ɡɹəˈtuɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation
  2. a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)
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How To Use gratuity In A Sentence

  • Teachers in government funded private colleges in the Punjab are on strike for a pension and gratuity scheme.
  • When they took a Mountain Aborigine head, eighteen liters of palay were distributed to each household among the four Plains Aborigine villages of Puli, as a gratuity. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Justification for a gratuity falls upon those by whom it is authorized.
  • The priest is received with bows at the door, and when the benediction is over he is rewarded with the gratuity of a _paul_ or a _scudo_, according to the piety and purse of the proprietor; while into the basket of his attendant is always dropped a _pagnotta_, a couple of eggs, a _baiocco_, or some such trifle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
  • Remuneration as per the income tax act includes among other, any salary, leave pay, allowance, wage, overtime pay, bonus, gratuity, commission, fee, emoluments or pension.
  • Bill had served in the army during the First World War and, after he was demobbed, spent his gratuity on some cabins and some poultry he kept on a three-acre field his mother had left him.
  • Dyer had come out of the army at the end of the Second World War with rather more behind him than the gratuity due to an RASC Captain. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • It was unanimously decided to give a gratuity to the Captain in acknowledgement of his services.
  • Well, as part of my pay for February, I received my gratuity for the contract period that ended December 31, 2002.
  • It also wants to lengthen the qualifying period for long-service leave and dump a gratuity entitlement.
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