salary
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salary/ˈsaləri/
▶noun (pl. 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.
salaried adjective.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. salarie, from L. salarium, orig. denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’.
'salary' also found in these Oxford entries:
commensurate
- compensation
- emolument
- employee
- garnish
- increment
- override
- raise
- rise
- salariat
- salt cellar
- screw
- stipend
- unsalaried
- weighting
