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/ˈsæləɹi/ · noun
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy..
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
This is hire and salary, not revenge.
I used to say to our audiences: “It is difficult to get a man understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
Use salary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Salary means A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy..
Common synonyms include remuneration, wage, earnings, pay.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
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