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SALARY
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Irregular inflected form: salaried
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that remunerates
Example:
they saved a quarter of all their earnings
Synonyms:
earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("salary" is a kind of...):
regular payment (a payment made at regular times)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salary"):
combat pay (extra pay for soldiers engaged in active combat)
double time (a doubled wage (for working overtime))
found (food and lodging provided in addition to money)
half-pay (reduced wage paid to someone who is not working full time)
living wage (a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably)
merit pay (extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers))
minimum wage (the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law)
pay envelope; pay packet (wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner)
sick pay (wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave)
strike pay (money paid to strikers from union funds)
take-home pay (what is left of your pay after deductions for taxes and dues and insurance etc)
Holonyms ("salary" is a part of...):
payroll; paysheet (a list of employees and their salaries)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb salary
Context examples:
If a clerk wanted his salary raised, Mr. Jorkins wouldn't listen to such a proposition.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A code specifying the method used by the employer to compute the employee's salary or wages.
(Employee Salary Type, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Terminology relevant to the state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.
(CDISC SDTM Employment Status Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used.
(Fee for Service Payment Method, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
But repeating his visits often, expressing his joy to find I me in good health, asking, whether I were now settled for life? adding, that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months, at last he plainly invited me, though with some apologies, to be surgeon of the ship; that I should have another surgeon under me, beside our two mates; that my salary should be double to the usual pay; and that having experienced my knowledge in sea-affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any engagement to follow my advice, as much as if I had shared in the command.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The Principle Investigator (PI) must have a formal written appointment with the applicant organization, which must be in the form of an official relationship between the parties, but need not involve a salary or other form of remuneration.
(Grant Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)
A salary of five hundred a month would be too small.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As November begins, you appear to be determined to increase your salary.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Five hundred pounds for this particular job. Of course he has a salary as well.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh yes, I had forgotten the salary!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
