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View synonyms for salary

salary

[ sal-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural sal·a·ries.
  1. a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.


salary

/ ˈsælərɪ /

noun

  1. See wage
    a fixed regular payment made by an employer, often monthly, for professional or office work as opposed to manual work Compare wage


verb

  1. tr to pay a salary to

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Other Words From

  • sala·ry·less adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salary1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English salarie, from Anglo-French, from Latin salārium “money given to soldiers to buy salt, salt money.” See sal, -ary

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Word History and Origins

Origin of salary1

C14: from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Latin salārium the sum given to Roman soldiers to buy salt, from sal salt

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Synonym Study

See pay 1.

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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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