An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SALARIED
salaried
(adjective) receiving a salary; “salaried members of the staff”
compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary
(adjective) for which money is paid; “a paying job”; “remunerative work”; “salaried employment”; “stipendiary services”
compensated, remunerated, salaried, stipendiary
(adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation; “salaried workers”; “a stipendiary magistrate”
SALARY
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
salaried (not comparable)
Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly worker or a volunteer. Generally indicating a professional or manager.
Paid monthly as opposed to weekly.
Verb
salaried
simple past tense and past participle of salary
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Sal"a*ried, a.
Definition: Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.
SALARY
Sal"a*ry, a. Etym: [L. salarius.]
Definition: Saline [Obs.]
Sal"a*ry, n.; pl. Salaries. Etym: [F. salarie, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of thir pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt.]
Definition: 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.
Sal"a*ry v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salaried; p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying.]
Definition: 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
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