An honorary position is one given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. Other uses include:
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Honorary Academy Award
The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1950 for the 23rd Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Moti ...
, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, United States
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Honorary Aryan
Honorary Aryan (german: Ehrenarier) was an expression used in Nazi Germany to describe the formal or unofficial status of persons, including some Mischlinge, who were not recognized as belonging to the Aryan race, according to Nazi standards, bu ...
, a status in Nazi Germany
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Honorary authorship
Academic authorship of journal articles, books, and other original works is a means by which academics communicate the results of their scholarly work, establish priority for their discoveries, and build their reputation among their peers.
Auth ...
, listing of uninvolved people as co-authors of research papers
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Honorary César, awarded by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, France
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Honorary consul, an unpaid part-time diplomatic consul
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Honorary Goya Award, by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, Spain
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Honorary Police
There is an Honorary Police ( French: Police Honorifique) force in each of the twelve parishes of Jersey. Members of the Honorary Police are elected by the voters of the parish in which they serve, and are unpaid.
Honorary Police officers have ...
, unpaid police force in Jersey
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Honorary Prelate
A Prelate of Honour of His Holiness is a Catholic prelate to whom the Pope has granted this title of honour.
They are addressed as Monsignor and have certain privileges as regards clerical clothing.[Honorary society (disambiguation) Honorary society may refer to:
* honor society
* professional association
* learned society
See also
*Honorary (disambiguation)
An honorary position is one given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. Other uses include:
* H ...]
, whose members are elected for meritorious conduct
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honorary title, awarded as a mark of distinction
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Honorary citizenship
Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honour usually is symbolic and does not confer an ...
, awarded to aliens who have rendered service to the state
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Honorary degree
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...
, academic degree awarded to someone not formally qualified to receive it
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Honorary title (academic)
Honorary titles (professor, reader, lecturer) in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties. This practice primarily exists in the UK and Germany, as well as in m ...
, an academic title such as honorary professor conferred by a university or professional body
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Honorary trust
An honorary trust, under the law of trusts, is a device by which a person establishes a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary to enforce the trust. While such a trust would normally be void for lack of ...
, a trust with neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary
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Honorary whites
Honorary whites is a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa to grant some of rights and privileges of White South Africans, whites to those who would otherwise have been treated as Coloureds, non-whites under the Population Re ...
, a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa
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Honor (disambiguation)
Honour (or honor in American English) is the quality of being honorable.
Honor or Honour may also refer to:
People
* Honor (given name), a unisex given name
* Brian Honour (born 1964), English footballer and manager
* Gareth Honor (born 1979) ...
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Honorary title (disambiguation)
A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may be inserted between the f ...
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Honorarium
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The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (British English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain ...
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