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Webster 1913 Edition
Salary
Sal′a-ry
,Adj.
[L.
salarius
.] Saline
[Obs.]
Sal′a-ry
,Noun.
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. Shakespeare
☞ 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.
Sal′a-ry
Verb.
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 positionWebster 1828 Edition
Salary
SAL'ARY
,Noun.
The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, as to governors, magistrates, settled clergymen, instructors of seminaries, or other officers, civil or ecclesiastical. When wages are stated or stipulated by the month, week or day, we do not call the compensation salary, but pay or wages; as in the case of military men and laborers.