salary
salary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Saline [Obs.]
- 2.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. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak. Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
- 3.To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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