SALARIES
Noun
salaries
plural of salary
Verb
salaries
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of salary
Anagrams
• assailer, reassail
Source: Wiktionary
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