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Word: Salary
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’
ˈsaləri
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
Short Definition:fixed regular payment made by employer to employee
Examples:- he received a salary of £24,000
- a 15 per cent salary increase
Word: Salary
Speech Type: Verb
ˈsaləri
pay a salary to
Short Definition:pay salary to
Examples:- the Chinese system—salary the doctor and stop his pay when you get ill
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