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

Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself, an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will, verb_ commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake, commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law, abbreviation_ sine

give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on, transitive To give a tip to, Scots To hire, noun_ a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services, an interest in land capable of being inherited

A regularly paid gratuity paid regularly as benefit due to a person in consideration of past services; notably to one retired from service, on account of retirement age, disability or similar cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers; sometimes passed on to the heirs, or even specifically for them, as to the families of soldiers killed in service, A stated regular allowance by way of patronage or subsidy, e.g. to meritorious artists, or the like, a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working, verb_ grant a pension to, To force someone to retire on a pension, transitive verb_ To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off,