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salary

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1. salary - Noun

2. salary - Adjective

3. salary - Verb

Meaning

Saline

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire.

To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. Evelyn Waugh

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. Dorothy Parker

The salary of a good servant is never too high. German Proverb

A raised salary has been earned by service. Sicilian Proverb

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