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salary
[ sal-uh-ree ]
noun
- a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
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- sala·ry·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of salary1
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Example Sentences
They will still receive a salary if something is to happen to Ziad, but she is trying to make sure she saves as much as possible.
Yes, lawyers bill by the hour but are paid an annual salary—plus bonuses.
Clinkscales is still a cop, and made more than $100,000 in salary and overtime last year.
Still, he admitted—without disclosing his salary—that he wondered whether the paychecks were too good to last.
He looks like a man of the woods, but works at The Nerdery, programming for a healthy salary and benefits.
With this object in view, he has been continually paid his salary from the judicial expenses.
Sir Peter Edlin, it seems, has been doing treble the amount of work for a two-third's salary.
Thimbletoes doesn't fancy that, you know, because the Prime Minister has all the honey he wants, by way of a salary.
Your Majesty assigns him no salary, for it seems to be your intention to have him attend to that duty with his salary as fiscal.
Twenty dollars a month is the salary, and school keeps for six months, so I shall earn the large sum of $120 a year.
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