Hypertext Webster Gateway: "salary"
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) 1.7 (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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