Synonyms for Salary
ˈsæl ə risala·ry

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1. salarynoun

   An allowance is a stipulated amount furnished at regular intervals as a matter of discretion or gratuity, as of food to besieged soldiers, or of money to a child or ward. Compensation is a comprehensive word signifying a return for a service done. Remuneration is applied to matters of great amount or importance. Recompense is a still wider and loftier word, with less suggestion of calculation and market value; there are services for which affection and gratitude are the sole and sufficient recompense; earnings, fees, hire, pay, salary, and wages are forms of compensation and may be included in compensation, remuneration, or recompense. Pay is commercial and strictly signifies an exact pecuniary equivalent for a thing or service, except when the contrary is expressly stated, as when we speak of "high pay" or "poor pay." Wages denotes what a worker receives. Earnings is often used as exactly equivalent to wages, but may be used with reference to the real value of work done or service rendered, and even applied to inanimate things; as, the earnings of capital. Hire is distinctly mercenary or menial, but as a noun has gone out of popular use, tho the verb to hire is common. Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages. Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.

   Synonyms:
   allowance, compensation, earnings, fee, hire, honorarium, pay, payment, recompense, remuneration, requital, stipend, wages

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1. wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salarynoun

   something that remunerates

   "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"

   Synonyms:
   profit, pay, salary, lucre, wage, net income, earnings, profits, net, net profit, remuneration

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1. • Regular Payment

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1. salarynoun

   Synonyms:
   stipend, wages, hire, allowance, pay

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1. List of paraphrases for "salary":

   wage, salaries, wages, pay, treatment, remuneration, treatments, payroll, processing, earnings, paycheck, compensation, salary-related

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How to use Salary in a sentence?

1. John Sweeney:

   Despite that, 10 percent of people guessed (the salary of their significant other) wrong by $25,000 or more.

2. Jeremy Gordon:

   Equity is less attractive to engineers in Kenya when weighed against salary, which is not surprising given the nature of the start-up space, availability of funding, and the Kenyan economy.

3. Mohamed El Harari:

   The field's security guards are on strike because they complain about a delay of their salary payments, nOC paid the salaries to the security forces, but they haven't paid the guards yet.

4. Simon Maelzer:

   The Futex set-up was tough for beginners and many would get despondent and give up, although this is typical of the futures market in general. I didn't even get a salary at all.

5. Tulsi Gabbard:

   If we cannot work together through the regular order to keep the government funded and functioning then we should put our salaries to good use supporting causes that help people and nurture the communities who need it most, i intend to donate the salary I earn during the period that the government is shut down to charity.