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salary |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Salary \Sal"a*ry\, a. [L. salarius.] Saline [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Salary \Sal"a*ry\, n.; pl {Salaries}. [F. salaire, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay fr salarius belonging to salt, fr sal salt. See {Salt}.] 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. Note: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Salary \Sal"a*ry\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Salaried}; p. pr & vb n. {Salarying}.] To pay or agree to pay a salary to to attach salary to as to salary a clerk; to salary a position. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: salary n : something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: {wage}, {pay}, {earnings}, {remuneration}]
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