salary Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that remunerates
    wage; pay; earnings; remuneration.
    • wages were paid by check
    • he wasted his pay on drink
    • they saved a quarter of all their earnings

WordNet

Sal"a*ry adjective
Etymology
L. salarius.
Definitions
  1. Saline Obs.
Sal"a*ry noun
Etymology
F. salarie, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of thir pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt.
Wordforms
plural Salaries
Definitions
  1. The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.
    This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.
    ✍ Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages. Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
Sal"a*ry transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Salaried ; present participle & verbal noun Salarying
Definitions
  1. To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

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