Honorary

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 on honarary capacity with Allowance for special expendidture (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

See also

• honor (disambiguation)
• honorarium
• The Honourable