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单词 salary
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Definition of salary in English:

salary

nounPlural salaries ˈsaləriˈsæl(ə)ri
  • A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

    he received a salary of £24,000
    Compare with wage
    as modifier a 15 per cent salary increase
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The authority had a wide statutory power to pay its employees such salaries and wages as it thought fit.
    • For many teachers of state schools, monthly salaries do not cover their daily needs.
    • If you have a personal pension, remember to increase payments as your salary increases.
    • The private sector average wage would be used to set salaries for all public sector employees.
    • Another major concern of the Social Ministry will be the increase of salaries and pensions.
    • Under the law, we can't cut employee salaries as long as we are making a profit.
    • There has already been agreement not to increase salaries for public service employees.
    • The company has decided to freeze the level of pensionable salaries for its 10,000 workers.
    • Reportedly the salary for a new employee is double the minimum wage set by the government.
    • Employers pay their staff their weekly or monthly salaries after deducting the income tax they owe.
    • The salaries of the remaining employees will be cut with the size of the cut depending on the pay grade.
    • They have presided over a vast increase in the number and salaries of public sector employees.
    • Unions use collective bargaining to help set wages and salaries and worker benefits.
    • It employed people on a monthly salary and at its peak there were more than 5,000 on the payroll.
    • They seem content to let prices climb further out of reach of us mere mortals earning regular salaries.
    • The two people will receive their normal monthly salaries as they will be obliged to work at least six hours a day.
    • The strikers are demanding the payment of salaries owed to them over the past two months.
    • The salary discrimination permits the superiors to fix the salaries of their employees on an arbitrary basis.
    • He sold his car but on his monthly salary of £80 there was no way he could pay off his debts.
    • Some employees saw increases in their salaries while others had theirs reduced.
    Synonyms
    pay, earnings, remuneration, fee(s), emolument(s), stipend, honorarium, hire, wages, wage, gross pay, payment, earned income
    take-home pay, net pay
verbsalaries, salarying, salaried ˈsaləriˈsæl(ə)ri
[with object]archaic
  • Pay a salary to.

    the Chinese system—salary the doctor and stop his pay when you get ill
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Spanish clergy, which had been deprived of most of its land, was salaried by the state under the Concordat of 1851.
    • The Scottish sculptor Michael Noble (who subsequently married the countess) and the psychiatrist Mario Marini were salaried by her as well.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal 'salt'.

Rhymes

calorie, gallery, Malory, Valerie
 
 

Definition of salary in US English:

salary

nounˈsæl(ə)riˈsal(ə)rē
  • A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker.

    he received a salary of $29,000
    Compare with wage
    as modifier a 15 percent salary increase
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He sold his car but on his monthly salary of £80 there was no way he could pay off his debts.
    • For many teachers of state schools, monthly salaries do not cover their daily needs.
    • The salaries of the remaining employees will be cut with the size of the cut depending on the pay grade.
    • Reportedly the salary for a new employee is double the minimum wage set by the government.
    • Another major concern of the Social Ministry will be the increase of salaries and pensions.
    • They have presided over a vast increase in the number and salaries of public sector employees.
    • Under the law, we can't cut employee salaries as long as we are making a profit.
    • They seem content to let prices climb further out of reach of us mere mortals earning regular salaries.
    • Unions use collective bargaining to help set wages and salaries and worker benefits.
    • Some employees saw increases in their salaries while others had theirs reduced.
    • The private sector average wage would be used to set salaries for all public sector employees.
    • There has already been agreement not to increase salaries for public service employees.
    • The authority had a wide statutory power to pay its employees such salaries and wages as it thought fit.
    • It employed people on a monthly salary and at its peak there were more than 5,000 on the payroll.
    • Employers pay their staff their weekly or monthly salaries after deducting the income tax they owe.
    • The salary discrimination permits the superiors to fix the salaries of their employees on an arbitrary basis.
    • The strikers are demanding the payment of salaries owed to them over the past two months.
    • The company has decided to freeze the level of pensionable salaries for its 10,000 workers.
    • The two people will receive their normal monthly salaries as they will be obliged to work at least six hours a day.
    • If you have a personal pension, remember to increase payments as your salary increases.
    Synonyms
    pay, earnings, remuneration, fee, fees, emolument, emoluments, stipend, honorarium, hire, wages, wage, gross pay, payment, earned income
verbˈsæl(ə)riˈsal(ə)rē
[with object]archaic
  • Pay a salary to.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Scottish sculptor Michael Noble (who subsequently married the countess) and the psychiatrist Mario Marini were salaried by her as well.
    • The Spanish clergy, which had been deprived of most of its land, was salaried by the state under the Concordat of 1851.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’.

 
 
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