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Salary - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Salary : (noun)
1: 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Salary : \Sal"a*ry\, a. [L. salarius.]
Saline [Obs.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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SALARY. A reward or recompense for services performed.
2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the
performance of his official duties.
3. TheSalary : of the president of the United States is twenty-five
thousand dollars per annum; Act of l8th Feb. 1793; and the constitution,
art. 2, s. 1, provides that the compensation of the president shall not be
increased or diminished, during the time for which he shall have been
elected.
4. Salary is also applied to the reward paid for the performance of
other services; but if it be not fixed for each year, it is called
honorarium. Poth. Pand. h.t. According to M. Duvergier, the distinction
between honorarium and salary is this. By the former is understood the
reward given to the most elevated professions for services performed; and by
the latter the price of hiring of domestic servants and workmen. 19 Toull.
n. 268, p. 292, note.
5. There is this difference between salary and price; the former is the
reward paid for services, or for the hire of things; the latter is the
consideration paid for a thing sold. Lec. Elem. Sec. 907, 908.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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