SALARYING

Verb

salarying

present participle of salary

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



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