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1.NounThe rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
2.NounPeople of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
3.NounA royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
4.NounThe payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
5.NounPayment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
6.NounTo make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
7.NounSomeone in a privileged position.
8.NounA king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
9.NounThe bounds of a royal burgh.