Salary

salary
    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}]
    

Salary \Sal"a*ry\, a. [L. salarius.]
   Saline [Obs.]
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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.
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         This is hire and salary, not revenge.    --Shak.
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   Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short
         intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
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   Syn: Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
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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.
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SALARY. A reward or recompense for services performed. 
     2. It is usually applied to the reward paid to a public officer for the 
performance of his official duties. 
     3. The salary of the president of the United States is twenty-five 
thousand dollars per annum; Act of l8th Feb. 1793; and the constitution, 
art. 2, s. 1, provides that the compensation of the president shall not be 
increased or diminished, during the time for which he shall have been 
elected. 
     4. Salary is also applied to the reward paid for the performance of 
other services; but if it be not fixed for each year, it is called 
honorarium. Poth. Pand. h.t. According to M. Duvergier, the distinction 
between honorarium and salary is this. By the former is understood the 
reward given to the most elevated professions for services performed; and by 
the latter the price of hiring of domestic servants and workmen. 19 Toull. 
n. 268, p. 292, note. 
     5. There is this difference between salary and price; the former is the 
reward paid for services, or for the hire of things; the latter is the 
consideration paid for a thing sold. Lec. Elem. Sec. 907, 908. 
    

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "salary":
      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