salary

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From Latin salarium (salt money, money to buy salt with), from sal (salt)

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Singular
salary

Plural
salaries

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.

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Infinitive
to salary

Third person singular
salaries

Simple past
salaried

Past participle
salaried

Present participle
salarying

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.