ROYALTY


Meaning of ROYALTY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

payment

Credit Suisse is blaming SwissPerform, a royalty payments agency, for the problem.

Baucus actively opposes any increase in mineral royalty payments to the government.

More often than not, the producer's money comes out of the artist's record company royalty payment .

rate

A new artist with this sort of deal should expect to receive a royalty rate of 10-14 percent of the retail price.

Money both big advances against royalties and generous royalty rates once a record began to make a profit-were powerful inducements.

Almost from day one, the arguments over royalty rates , promotional budgets and artwork waged unceasingly.

But then Michael gets an even bigger royalty rate than Madonna.

And while a 5 percent royalty rate might have been fair in 1972, times had changed.

But Sting's royalty rate was increased, and backdated, giving him an immediate cash payment of some £100,000.

■ VERB

pay

Ravel even decreed from his deathbed that Adler should not pay royalties for playing Bolero.

They paid royalties , though offering notoriously low advances.

It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.

Genentech is paid royalties for sales of the drug.

If the bill became law, manufacturers using chemicals obtained from local species would have to pay a royalty to the state.

Merck will pay royalties on any sales resulting from the exercise.

Sony are allegedly not paying royalties to the Beatles, and refuse to withdraw the album.

This is to ascertain whether these companies have paid over the correct royalties to the band.

receive

But Johnson never received credit or writing royalties and has lived most of his life in poverty.

A district judge will decide later the amount of money and interest the musicians must receive from royalties .

It would also receive royalties from the sales drugs approved for marketing.

In pence per record terms, this means that most bands receive a royalty of between 50p and 70p per album sold.

Government lawyers have been encouraged by a 1997 Appeal Court judgment preventing the spy George Blake from receiving royalties on his autobiography.

A new artist with this sort of deal should expect to receive a royalty rate of 10-14 percent of the retail price.

In return for giving Loblaws its official seal of approval, Probe was to receive a royalty on sales.

treat

Wherever she went, she was mobbed; whenever she traveled, she was treated like royalty .

She herself was now treated like visiting royalty when she went anywhere.

Medal winners will receive large cash prizes from the government and be treated like royalty .

The hotels and guesthouses still treat their visitors like royalty .

The A list is a privileged lot that is treated like royalty and given the utmost respect.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

He receives a royalty of 2% on each card sold.

Simon's royalties for the book will go to charity.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As a result, publishers have few costs to charge writers and composers against their publishing royalties.

Coal mined underground generates an 8 percent gross royalty .

He loved royalty , caste, empire.

If their copyright music becomes a record and is sold, royalties become due.

Monsanto will charge seed companies a handsome royalty to immunize their seed.

Nowadays record companies use impeccable accounting techniques, assisted by computers, to calculate the royalties for composers.

She herself was now treated like visiting royalty when she went anywhere.

The princess: She was very good and cleaned and cooked for her brothers in their cottage even though she was royalty .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.