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    [Noun]  | "sal*a*ry" | \ ˈsa-lə-rē \


    1: fixed compensation paid regularly for services

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English salarie, salaire "compensation, payment," borrowed from Anglo-French (also continental Old French), borrowed from Latin salārium "official pay given to the holder of a civil or military post," noun derivative from neuter of salārius "of or relating to salt," from sal-, sāl "salt" + -ārius {see: |-ary:2|-ary:2} {mat|salt:1|};

      * Note : The notion that Latin salārium originally referred to money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt is a popular one, but it has no basis in ancient sources. It rests on the inference that salārium was originally short for an unattested phrase salārium argentum "salt money," which would have been parallel to the contextually better attested words calceārium "money for shoes" (from calceus "shoe") or vestiārium "allowance in money or kind to provide for clothing" (from vestis "clothes"). The inference can be found in Charlton Lewis and Charles Short's A Latin Dictionary (1879), many times reprinted, though it was copied from earlier dictionaries, as the Latin-German dictionaries of Wilhelm Freund (1840) and I. J. G. Scheller (1783) (Scheller, however, takes dōnum "gift, prize" to have been the understood word). Pliny the Elder has been cited as support for the soldier's pay explanation, though the text of his Historia naturalis refers only to some undefined role salt played in relation to honors in war, "from which the word salārium is derived" ("[sal] honoribus etiam militiaeque interponitur salariis inde dictis"; 31.89). As Pliny is extolling the virtues of salt in this chapter, it see:ms likely that if he knew of a better explanation for the word, he would have mentioned it. Clearly salt was somehow involved in the notion of official compensation in early imperial Rome, but to speculate further on its function is no more than guessing. (Compare "Salt and salary: were Roman soldiers paid in salt?," blog post by New Zealand classicist Peter Gainsford, Kiwi Hellenist, January 11, 2017, available online 5/26/22.);

    [Noun]  | "starting salary" 


    1: the salary people are paid when they start a job

    [Noun]  | "salary/pay review" 


    1: a review of an employee's work and performance by an employer to decide by how much the employee's pay or salary should be increased

    [Noun]  | "salary" 


    1: the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services;


      * e.g., " ... signed a contract for a new job with a salary of $60,000 per year "



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     [ "salary" ]

    1: Money paid to an employee for regular work performed that is supposed to reflect the true value of the employee to the company, but more often resembles a bad joke.

      * e.g.,  ... My salary is laughable. 

     [ "salary" ]

    1: An overhyped number that does not quantify your child's intelligence or success.

      * e.g.,  ... Don't fixate on job stats or salary figures. Focus instead on the skills and interest. 

     [ "salary" ]

    1: a huge penis

      * e.g.,  ... Theres plenty of my salary to go around. Everyone likes a big salary! "I heard he gave her some of his salary last night" 

     [ "salaried" ]

    1:  In the USA, typically an annual wage rate based upon a 40 hour (snicker) work week.

      * e.g.,  ... Your Buddy: "So how's work?" 

     [ "salaried" ]

    2:  Taking it in the ass from the man who signs your pay check.

      * e.g.,  ... You: "Ya mean that 50-70 hour thing I do each week?" 

     [ "salaried" ]

    3:  Thinking of your hourly rate and getting sick. Because you are in essence your boss's labor bitch and the calculation will result in rapid onset depression.

      * e.g.,  ... Your Buddy: "Yeah - er...jeez. Are you hourly?" 

     [ "Salarious" ]

    1: Something that is sad and hilarious at the same time.

      * e.g.,  ... My family treats me like shit, salarious. 

     [ "Salary" ]

    1: The supposed amount of money you should receive according last daily company policy for your work. Usually paid late or never if you are Bamboozled in Vietnam.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey BRO we are in July.... give me my funking February salary instead of Jokinng! Motherfuker! 

     [ "Salary" ]

    1: No seriously. What do you think the writing team of some of these shows makes per season? And how does me writing the things that are on the show not constitute "me being on the team?"

      * e.g.,  ... Hym "What is the salary? Should I google it? Did anyone else on the writing team not get their paycheck or is it just me?" 

     [ "salary bukake" ]

    1: An employee who continually goes above and beyond the call of duty. One whom prefers the company of management over his or her own co workers. One who will engage in intense brown nosing and ultimately engross themselves in abnormal sexual acts to pleasure their superiors.

      * e.g.,  ... There He goes again, Back at the Salary Bukake! 

     [ "Salary Thief" ]

    1: A salary thief is someone who receives a salary from a company but has no intention of giving anything of value in return.

      * e.g.,  ... "He is a waster..." 

     [ "Salary Syndrome" ]

    1: The slacking that occurs when an employee realizes that they're going to continue to receive their paycheck regardless of how much time they actually spend working.

      * e.g.,  ... Dan was a great employee until he caught Salary Syndrome, I watched him click a pen for 90 minutes yesterday before leaving a half hour early. 

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