salary

Definitions

1. A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
2. Salary, wage.

Equivalents

Examples

“This is hire⟳ and salary, not revenge.”

“Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.”

“I used to say⟳ to our audiences: “It is difficult to get⟳ a man understand⟳ something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!””

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