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Webster 1913 Edition

Salary

Sal′a-ry

,
Adj.
[L.
salarius
.]
Saline
[Obs.]

Sal′a-ry

,
Noun.
;
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.
Shakespeare
☞ 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.

Sal′a-ry

Verb.
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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Salary

SAL'ARY

,
Noun.
[L. salarium; said to be from sal, salt, which was part of the pay of Roman soldiers.]
The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, as to governors, magistrates, settled clergymen, instructors of seminaries, or other officers, civil or ecclesiastical. When wages are stated or stipulated by the month, week or day, we do not call the compensation salary, but pay or wages; as in the case of military men and laborers.

Definition 2024

salary

salary

English

Alternative forms

Noun

salary ‎(plural salaries)

  1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
    • Shakespeare
      This is hire and salary, not revenge.
    • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
      Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.

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Translations

Verb

salary ‎(third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried)

  1. To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.

Adjective

salary ‎(comparative more salary, superlative most salary)

  1. (obsolete) saline

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salarium ‎(“salt money, money to buy salt with”), from sal ‎(“salt”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsæləɹi/
  • Homophone: celery (in some dialects)

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