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 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 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 Police — unpaid police force in Jersey
- Honorary Aryan — Nazi German title
- honorary whites — description of non-whites respected by white racists
- Honorary Guide — bestowed by Raëlian movement on non-Raëlians