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salaries |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. Syn: Stipend; pay wages; hire; allowance.
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