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salary
What does salary mean?
salary (noun): a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use salary in a sentence?
- What is your salary? (Tatoeba sentence #6368399 by ddnktr, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce salary?
/ˈsæləɹi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does salary come from?
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of salary?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “salary” mean?
a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages
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exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value
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an emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie
Not quite: that's what bond means.
a movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity
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Which word is closest in meaning to “salary”?
top
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law
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end
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pay
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