salary

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 See also 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin salarium (“‘salt money, money to buy salt with’”), from sal (“‘salt’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Homophones

• celery (depends on dialect)

[edit] Noun

salary (plural salaries)

1. a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.

[edit] Derived terms

• monthly salary
• annual salary

[edit] See also

• pay
• remuneration
• wage
• wages

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to 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.