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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAL'ARY, n. [L. salarium; said to be from sal, salt, which was part of the pay of Roman soldiers.]
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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ries) Etymology: Middle English salarie, from Anglo-French, from Latin salarium pension, salary, from neuter of salarius of salt, from sal salt — more at salt Date: 13th century fixed compensation paid regularly for services • salaried adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Salary Sal"a*ry, a. [L. salarius.] Saline [Obs.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Salary Sal"a*ry, n.; 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. --Shak. Note: 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Salary Sal"a*ry v. 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 position.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(salaries) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. A salary is the money that someone is paid each month by their employer, especially when they are in a profession such as teaching, law, or medicine. (BUSINESS) ...the lawyer was paid a huge salary... The government has decided to increase salaries for all civil servants. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Stipend, pay, wages, hire, allowance.

Moby Thesaurus

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