'Salary' definitions:
Definition of 'salary'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Salary'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Salary'
From: GCIDE
- Salary \Sal"a*ry\, a. [L. salarius.] Saline [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Salary'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- This is hire and salary, not revenge. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'salary'
From: 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