salary
//ˈsæləɹi//
Forms
- Plural
- salaries
- present (v1)
- salary
- past (v2)
- salaried
- past participle (v3)
- salaried
- present participle
- salarying
- 3rd person singular
- salaries
Definitions
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.
- This is hire and salary, not revenge.
- I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
1.To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2660
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”).