Definitions for royalties

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royalties roy·al·ty

Spelling: [roi-uh l-tee]

IPA: /ˈrɔɪ əl ti/

Royalties is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 819 anagrams from letters in royalties (aeilorsty).

Definitions for royalties

noun

1. royal persons collectively.
2. royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty:
3. a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.
4. royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.
5. a royal domain; kingdom; realm.
6. character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.
7. a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right, for the use of it.
8. an agreed portion of the income from a work paid to its author, composer, etc., usually a percentage of the retail price of each copy sold.
9. a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.
10. the payment made for such a right.
11. royal persons collectively.
12. royal status, dignity, or power; sovereignty:
13. a person of royal lineage; member of a royal family.
14. royalties, Archaic. prerogatives, rights, or symbolic emblems of a king, queen, or other sovereign.
15. a royal domain; kingdom; realm.
16. character or quality proper to or befitting a sovereign; nobility.
17. a compensation or portion of the proceeds paid to the owner of a right, as a patent or oil or mineral right, for the use of it.
18. an agreed portion of the income from a work paid to its author, composer, etc., usually a percentage of the retail price of each copy sold.
19. a royal right, as over minerals, granted by a sovereign to a person or corporation.
20. the payment made for such a right.

Origin of royalties

1350-1400; Middle English roialte Old French. See royal, -ty²

Examples for royalties

The Afghanistan artist who designed the cards receives a royalty on all packages sold.

Mr. Jameson summoned the representative of royalty and spoke to him in a low tone.

From expensive art to rigs, exotic animals to royalty, the requests kept coming.

He is as well-connected with rock stars as he is with royalty.

There was something that is supposed to be the prerogative of royalty in the lift of it.

She is said to have written some books which brought her fame and royalty.

Saving gorillas with royalty, can Congress toke up and the NSA chief profited even as he had AT&T spy on you.

That's four million, and I should take a royalty of four shillings on wholesale orders.

This allows for artist compensation based on revenue rather than royalty, as Spotify does.

I am obliged to use the most of it on the royalty statements you send me.

Saving gorillas with royalty, can Congress toke up and the NSA chief profited even as he had AT&T spy on you.

The Afghanistan artist who designed the cards receives a royalty on all packages sold.

From expensive art to rigs, exotic animals to royalty, the requests kept coming.

This allows for artist compensation based on revenue rather than royalty, as Spotify does.

That's four million, and I should take a royalty of four shillings on wholesale orders.

She is said to have written some books which brought her fame and royalty.

Mr. Jameson summoned the representative of royalty and spoke to him in a low tone.

He is as well-connected with rock stars as he is with royalty.

There was something that is supposed to be the prerogative of royalty in the lift of it.

I am obliged to use the most of it on the royalty statements you send me.