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   salary

   /ˈsaləri/

   noun

   • 1. a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee, especially a professional or white-collar worker: "he received a salary of £24,000"

   verb

   • 1. pay a salary to: archaic "the Chinese system—salary the doctor and stop his pay when you get ill"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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