salary
Use Salary in a sentence
ə noun, plural sal·a·ries.
a fixed compensation periodically paid to a person for regular work or services.
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| —n , pl -ries | |
| 1. | Compare wage a fixed regular payment made by an employer, often monthly, for professional or office work as opposed to manual work |
| —vb , -ries, -ries, -rying, -ried | |
| 2. | (tr) to pay a salary to |
| [C14: from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Latin salārium the sum given to Roman soldiers to buy salt, from sal salt] | |
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Word Origin & History
salary
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. salarie (c.1280), O.Fr. salarie, from L. salarium "salary, stipend," originally "soldier's allowance for the purchase of salt," from neut. of adj. salarius "pertaining to salt," from sal (gen. salis) "salt" (see salt). Japanese sarariman "male salaried
worker," lit. "salary-man," is from Eng. The verb meaning "to pay a regular salary to" is attested from late 15c.
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Example sentences
At retirement a bonus of around three times the final annual salary is paid in a lump sum.
Exploit the loopholes in the salary cap so that you spend more money than other teams.
There seems to be great variation in how jobs are listed with regards to salary.
The combination of low salary and expensive new apartment left him gasping for cash.
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