Category:Salary

Sal"a*ry, a. Etym: [l. salarius.]

Defn: saline [obs.]

Salary Sal"a*ry, n.; pl. Salaries. Etym: [f. salarie, l. salarium, Originally, salt money, the money given to the roman soldiers for Salt, which was a part of thir pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, Fr. sal salt. See salt.]

Defn: 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.

Salary Sal"a*ry v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salaried; p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying.]

Defn: to pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, To salary a clerk; to salary a position.