单词 | salary |
释义 | salaryn. 1. Fixed payment made periodically to a person as compensation for regular work: now usually restricted to payments made for non-manual or non-mechanical work (as opposed to wages).From c1390 to c1520 commonly applied to the stipend of a priest, esp. a chantry priest. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > fixed or regular pensiona1325 salary1377 feec1400 salt money1535 stipend1539 sal1844 upstanding wage1888 base pay1904 base salary1911 basic pay1916 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of non-manual workers stipend?a1475 salary1868 α. β. 1433 J. Lydgate Legend St. Edmund i. 934 The laborer neded no stuff to borwe For his salaire abood nat til the morwe.c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 135 Suppos the ȝere be nocht all past, or bot begonnyn, his [sic] sall haue his full feis, and salare.?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 16 The salair of the rectour.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 142 Riȝt as a seruaunt taketh his salarye bifore & sitth wolde clayme more. a1400 Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 40 in Adam Davy's 5 Dreams 83 Chese þe a witty hyne & loue hym with al þi miȝth; Of his Salerie wiþ holde þou nouȝth. 1428 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 80 And to a prest for to singe for me and all cristin soulis, competent saleri for an hole here. 1483–5 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 121 Payde to the preste, Syr Iohn plommer, for hys celarie for ij yer, xiij li vj s viij d. 1516 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 2 I will that a descritt and an honest preste have sellary to syng for my soull. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xii. 93 Phisitions..for their salarie haue euery one of them tenne aspres a day. 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 360 For competent viande and sallarie to vndergoe the defence of the Realme. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 166 Reward, is either of Gift, or by Contract. When by Contract, it is called Salary, and Wages. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 69 Are not some so taken up with the..gilded Cabbins, Lanthorns, and great Salaries which they have, that they minde little else? 1677 A. Marvell Seasonable Argument to persuade Grand Juries to petition for New Parl. 3 Sir Humphry Winch, Baronet, hath from the Court 500 l. per annum Sallery. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 402 The Slaves..have no wages, but..Cloaths to a higher Value than our Salarys to any ordinary Servant. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 324 Fixed salaries were appointed to the judges. View more context for this quotation 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. iv. §2 71 That large portion of the productive capital of a country which is employed in paying the wages and salaries of labourers. 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 37/1 A manager of a bank or railway—even an overseer or a clerk in a manufactory, is said to draw a salary. 1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxix. 43 The salary of the Prime Minister is £5,000 per annum. a. Reward or remuneration for services rendered; fee, honorarium. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] salaryc1440 gift1477 fee1599 c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxiv. 88 But if þou pay now, I shal holde thi wif to wed, tyll tyme that I be paied fully my salary. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 174 Shall I haue none other salaire ne other gwerdon for all my merites. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xxxvii. f. xlviiiv/2 He wold haue gyuen to the Maronner for his solaire a boke of the gospellis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iii. 79 Oh this is hyre and Sallery, not Reuenge. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 390 Their Exchanges are made vpon this imaginarie ducat of three hundreth seuentie and fiue Maluedies, to be payed in Banke, with fiue vpon the thousand, which is the sallarie of the Banker. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 245 Salarie..signifies a recompence or consideration given unto any man for his paines bestowed upon another mans businesse. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §9 When I doe him [sc. my patient] no good, me thinkes it is scarce honest gaine, though I confesse 'tis but the worthy salary of our well-intended endeavours. View more context for this quotation b. gen. Reward, recompense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > [noun] shipec1000 rightOE yielda1200 hire?c1225 foryieldinga1300 tithinga1300 rentc1300 lowera1325 guerdon?a1366 recompensationa1382 retributionc1384 reward?1387 reguerdona1393 rewardon?a1400 mercimonyc1400 pensionc1400 remunerationc1400 recompensec1425 wardonc1480 salary1484 premiationa1513 requital1556 repayment1561 requite1561 renumeration1572 remisea1578 lieu1592 reguerdonment1599 gratulation1611 muneration1611 requit1786 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope vii Alle the sallary or payment of them that mokken other is for to be mocqued at the last. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. viii. §1. 279 Felicitie, which is the salarie and reward of Vertue, is giuen vs of God. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. vi. 70 This is the Sallery which the goods of the Earth bestow on those who serve them. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 406 You that have repented and are become good People, receive your Salary entring there for ever. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. salary bracket n. ΚΠ 1969 L. Hellman Unfinished Woman vi. 62 We were in what was called ‘the same salary bracket’. salary-earner n. ΚΠ 1926 Socialist Rev. Oct. 47 A minority of salary-earners receive also unearned incomes of varying sizes. salary man n. ΚΠ 1719 in A. M. Davis Tracts Currency Mass. Bay (1902) 193 Salary Men, Ministers, School-Masters, [etc.]..are pincht and hurt more than any. 1763 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLIX. 139 Our provinces..who have greatly wronged many..generous creditors, and salary men, by means of their awful breaches of their public faith. 1962 Spectator 29 June 846/2 Expensive cameras are being crowded out as the ultimate dream of what the Japanese call ‘salarymen’. They are being replaced by a little bubble of an automobile. salary officer n. ΚΠ 1816 Deb. Congr. U.S. 4 Dec. (1854) 240 The only difference between a salary officer and a per diem, is simply in the mode of payment, and not in the amount. 1822 Ann. 17th Congr. 1st Sess. I. 168 To fix the compensation of a collector, so it would neither exceed nor fall short of a particular sum,..would be making them all salary officers. salary scale n. ΚΠ 1940 R. S. Lambert Ariel & all his Quality xi. 302 Grade and salary scales were defined, and every employee informed where he stood. b. salary-fixing n. ΚΠ 1961 Guardian 25 Oct. 1/7 The machinery for salary-fixing in the universities is complicated. C2. salary grab n. an opprobrious term for the act of the U.S. Congress of 1873 by which the salaries of congressmen were increased. ΚΠ 1879 A. Johnston Hist. Amer. Polit. (1884) 220 The Act..was commonly known as the Salary Grab. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † salaryadj.1 Obsolete. rare. Open to sale, venal, saleable adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [adjective] > able to be bought buyable1483 salary1593 mercable1656 purchasable1692 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77 Can it be so many brothel-houses, of salary sensuality, & sixe-penny whoredome,..should be sette vp and maintained? 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. D He [sc. Frier Tecelius] that..first stird vp Luther, pronouncing from the Pope free salarie indulgence to anie man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † salaryadj.2 Obsolete. Saline. ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 338 From such salary irradiations may those wondrous varieties arise, which are observable in..Peacocks feathers. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). salaryv. transitive. To recompense, reward; to pay for something done (Obsolete or archaic); to pay a regular salary to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] foryield971 yield971 crownc1175 shipec1275 payc1330 to do meeda1350 rewardc1350 guerdonc1374 reguerdona1393 to do (one) whyc1400 quitc1400 recompense1422 salary1477 merit1484 requite1530 requit1532 reacquite1534 to pay home1542 remunerate1542 regratify1545 renumerate?1549 gratify?c1550 acquit1573 consider1585 regratiate1590 guerdonize1594 munerate1595 regratulate1626 reprise1677 sugar-plum1788 ameed1807 recompensate1841 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)] > pay for (work) salary1637 wage1638 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > pay (a person) for labour or service [verb (transitive)] > pay a salary to stipend1596 salariate1656 stipendiate1656 salary1837 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 172 How..shall I be sallaryed of suche payement in the recompensacion of the saluacion of your lyf? 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 46 I am not salaried to defend the Writer of the Letter. 1659 P. Heylyn Examen Historicum i. 210 They..salared some Lectures in such Market Towns where the people had commonly lesse to do. 1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. I. 218 He [sc. Cibber] knew he was no poet, yet he would string wretched rhimes, even when not salaried for them. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 290 The seven Judges of the Supreme Court are salaried with the same moderation as other members of the federal government. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. 375 For the great majority of nations agriculture is the single source of wealth; all manufactures are ultimately salaried by it. 1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. ii. 69 The good man..is often unhappy, while vice is not unfrequently salaried and crowned with rewards. 1892 ‘G. Travers’ Mona Maclean III. lv. 198 The Chinese system—salary the doctor, and stop his pay when you get ill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1377adj.11593adj.21646v.1477 |
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