Honorary

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An honorary position is an unpaid position. Other uses include:

  • honorary title — awarded as a mark of distinction
    • honorary citizenship — awarded to aliens who have rendered service to the state
    • honorary degree — academic degree awarded to someone not formally qualified to receive it
  • Honorary Aryan — Nazi German title
  • honorary authorship — routine listing of administrators as co-authors of papers describing research carried out in facilities for which they have responsibility
  • honorary consul — an unpaid part-time diplomatic consul
  • Honorary Mayor — in Germany an elected part-time Mayor of a Town council or municipality council, which post is carried out in an honorary capacity with an allowance for special expenditure (de: Aufwandsentschädigung)
  • Honorary Police — unpaid police force in Jersey
  • honorary society — whose members are elected for meritorious conduct
  • honorary trust — a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary to enforce the trust.
  • honorary whites — description of non-whites respected by white racists

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