salary

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: sal=a=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

salary, a. [L. salarius.].

 Saline  [1913 Webster]

salary, n. [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.  [1913 Webster]
" Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages."  [1913 Webster]
"This is hire and salary, not revenge."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.

salary, v. t. 

 To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

salary, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies) a fixed regular payment, usu. monthly or quarterly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. a professional or white-collar worker (cf. WAGE n. 1).
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. as salaried adj.) pay a salary to.

Etymology

ME f. AF salarie, OF salaire f. L salarium orig. soldier's salt-money f. sal salt

THESAURUS

salary

base pay, compensation, dismissal wage, earnings, emolument, escalator clause, escalator plan, fee, financial remuneration, gross income, guaranteed annual wage, hire, income, living wage, minimum wage, net income, pay, pay and allowances, payment, payroll, portal-to-portal pay, purchasing power, real wages, remuneration, severance pay, sliding scale, stipend, take-home, take-home pay, taxable income, total compensation, wage, wage control, wage freeze, wage reduction, wage rollback, wage scale, wages, wages after deductions, wages after taxes

ROGET THESAURUS

salary

Payment

N payment, defrayment, discharge, acquittance, quittance, settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement, acknowledgment, release, receipt, receipt in full, receipt in full of all demands, voucher, salary, compensation, remuneration (reward), repayment, reimbursement, retribution, pay, money paid, ready money, stake, remittance, installment, payer, liquidator, pay cash, pay cash on the barrelhead, paying, paid, owing nothing, out of debt, all straight, unowed, never indebted, to the tune of, on the nail, money down.

Reward

N reward, recompense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon, price, indemnity, indemnification, quittance, compensation, reparation, redress, satisfaction, reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop, atonement, retribution, consideration, return, quid pro quo, salvage, perquisite, vail, douceur, bribe, hush money, smart money, blackmail, extortion, carcelage, solatium, allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation, pay, payment, emolument, tribute, batta, shot, scot, bonus, premium, tip, fee, honorarium, hire, dasturi, dustoori, mileage, crown, remunerative, remuneratory, munerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory, rewarding, satisfactory, fideli certa merces, honor virtutis praemium, tibi seris tibi metis.