SALARY (salaried)

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Irregular inflected form: salaried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does salary mean? 

• SALARY (noun)
  The noun SALARY has 1 sense:

1. something that remunerates

  Familiarity information: SALARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that remunerates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage

Context example:

they saved a quarter of all their earnings

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)

 Context examples 

That beats any salary I can command.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, here’s a note for a hundred pounds, and if you think that we can do business you may just slip it into your pocket as an advance upon your salary.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘And what salary do you ask?’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This will have an excellent effect on your salary.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

No; his needs were very simple and his salary ample.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And there Meg sat, to 'rest and read', which meant to yawn and imagine what pretty summer dresses she would get with her salary.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Did I say, a few days since, that I had nothing to do with him but to receive my salary at his hands?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I really cannot venture to name her salary to you, Miss Woodhouse.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary; the occupation for which you are paid.

(Employment, NCI Thesaurus)

“That’s a hundred and fifty dollars a month. Well, Miss Brewster, there is nothing small about the Ghost. Consider yourself on salary during the time you remain with us.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)