salary

  • 21salary — Compensation for personal service. Papeay v Nolan, 157 Tenn 222, 7 SW2d 815, 60 ALR 408; compensation for services in a position or office. 35 Am J1st M & S § 63. Compensation for personal services, as distinguished from profits realized in… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 22salary — noun (plural ries) Etymology: Middle English salarie, from Anglo French, from Latin salarium pension, salary, from neuter of salarius of salt, from sal salt more at salt Date: 13th century fixed compensation paid regularly for services • salaried …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 23salary — [14] Salary goes back to a Latin word that originally denoted an ‘allowance given to Roman soldiers for buying salt’ (salt being in former times a valued commodity, over which wars were fought, rather than taken for granted as it is today). This… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 24salary — noun (plural salaries) a fixed regular payment made usually on a monthly basis by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white collar worker. verb (salaries, salarying, salaried) pay a salary to. Derivatives salaried adjective… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 25salary — noun a annual raise in his salary Syn: pay, wages, earnings, payment, remuneration, fee(s), stipend, income; informal take home; formal emolument …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 26salary*/ — [ˈsæləri] noun [C] a fixed amount of money that you earn each month or year from your job an annual salary of £25, 000[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 27salary — sal•a•ry [[t]ˈsæl ə ri[/t]] n. pl. ries a fixed compensation paid periodically to a person for regular work or services • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME salarie < AF < L salārium soldier or official s salary, presumably orig. money for salt =sal …

    From formal English to slang

  • 28salary — A reward or recompense for services performed. In a more limited sense, a fixed periodical compensation paid for services rendered. A stated compensation paid periodically as by the year, month, or other fixed period, in contrast to wages which… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 29salary — [14] Salary goes back to a Latin word that originally denoted an ‘allowance given to Roman soldiers for buying salt’ (salt being in former times a valued commodity, over which wars were fought, rather than taken for granted as it is today). This… …

    Word origins

  • 30salary — n. & v. n. (pl. ies) a fixed regular payment, usu. monthly or quarterly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. a professional or white collar worker (cf. WAGE n. 1). v.tr. ( ies, ied) (usu. as salaried adj.) pay a salary to. Etymology: ME f.… …

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