salary
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Noun (1)salaries
- something that remunerates“wages were paid by cash”“he wasted his pay on drink”“they saved a quarter of all their earnings”Synonyms: wagepayearningsremunerationType of regular paymentKinds sick pay, found, take-home pay, pay envelope, minimum wage, piece rate, half-pay, strike pay, double time, combat pay +2 morePart of payroll, paysheet
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Translations
Noun regular pay for work
- Spanish
- salario
- French
- salaire
- German
- Gehalt
- Italian
- stipendio
- Portuguese
- salário
- Turkish
- maaş
- Russian
- зарпла́та zarpláta
- Arabic
- رَاتِب rātib
- Chinese
- 薪水 xīnshuǐ
- Japanese
- 給料 kyūryō
36 more languages
- Dutch
- salaris
- Polish
- pensja
- Swedish
- lön
- Greek
- μισθός misthós
- Korean
- 월급 wolgeup
- Indonesian
- gaji
- Vietnamese
- lương
- Hungarian
- fizetés
- Portuguese (PT)
- salário
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 薪水 xīnshuǐ
- Albanian
- rrogë
- Breton
- goprad
- Catalan
- sou
- Corsican
- salariu
- Czech
- plat
- Danish
- løn
- Esperanto
- salajro
- Estonian
- palk
- Finnish
- palkka
- Georgian
- ხელფასი xelpasi
- Hebrew
- שָׂכָר sakhár
- Icelandic
- laun
- Kurdish
- meaş
- Latvian
- alga
- Lithuanian
- alga
- Malagasy
- karama
- Norwegian
- lønn
- Romanian
- salariu
- Scottish Gaelic
- tuarasdal
- Serbo-Croatian
- plaća
- Slovak
- plat
- Slovenian
- plača
- Swahili
- mshahara
- Walloon
- traitmint
- Welsh
- cyflog
- Yiddish
- שׂכירות skhires
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. salarius.
Saline obsolete
Origin: 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.— William Shakespeare
☞ Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
Synonyms: Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54