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â¢ EMOLUMENT (noun) The noun EMOLUMENT has 1 sense: 1. compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) Familiarity information: EMOLUMENT used as a noun is very rare.
âWhen you want to understand what emoluments are, you look at the text, the history, and the purpose,â Teachout explains. âYou have the word emoluments and how it was used when the Framers wrote the Constitution. You have the history of how courts have interpreted it as a strict understanding of what a benefit is. And perhaps most important, you have its purposeâyou donât want a foreign power having influence over an American president.â