Crossword clues for salaries
salaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Salary \Sal"a*ry\, n.; pl. Salaries. [F. salaire, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of their pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt.] 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.
This is hire and salary, not revenge.
--Shak.
Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
Syn: Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of salary English)
Usage examples of "salaries".
Schoolteachers and professors were one of the largest sectors of the economy who found they simply could not survive on their salaries and so either tried to flee the country or found other employment.
There the atmosphere is convivial, the beer flows freely (so long as salaries have just been paid), the talk is of sex and politics.
Rob's having to juggle the bills so we can pay salaries, Sue's trying to type your letters while the phone's going all the time and I've got a report to finish offfor a project we've already been paid for.
Ecowatch has no money to pay salaries, let alone pay the rent and all the outstanding creditors.
The ambassadors and ministers of foreign nations not only have generous salaries, but their Governments provide them with money wherewith to pay a considerable part of their hospitality bills.
For it seems quite impossible that, with that precedent on the books, the Government will be able to find excuses for continuing its diplomatic salaries at the present mean figure.
And, for pure sham and hypocrisy, the salary is just the match of the ambassador's official clothes--that boastful advertisement of a Republican Simplicity which manifests itself at home in Fifty-thousand-dollar salaries to insurance presidents and railway lawyers, and in domestic palaces whose fittings and furnishings often transcend in costly display and splendour and richness the fittings and furnishings of the palaces of the sceptred masters of Europe.
The sums they pay are accordin' to their salaries and the length of their terms of office, if elected.
In addition, since I want you to apply yourselves diligently to this enterprise, once all expenses, improvements, materials, taxes, salaries, and so forth are paid, you will divide among yourselves one-twelfth of the surplus.
The inn recaptured over forty percent of what I paid out in salaries, and the store took in another thirty-five.
That is to say, they could leave their salaries uncollected and draw interest on it, although we had to resort to certain subterfuges to get around the Church's silly usury laws.
What he had in mind, I think, was the fact that among the Dolphin contracts coming up for renewal this year are those of Larry Csonka, Jake Scott, Paul Warfield, Dick Anderson and Mercury Morris -- all established stars earning between $30,000 and $55,000 a year right now, and all apparently in the mood to double their salaries next time around.
Which might seem a bit pushy, to some people -- until you start comparing average salary figures in the National Football League against salaries in other pro sports.
Perhaps the best example of how the competition-factor affects player salaries comes from the ledger-books of the NFL.
For as long as he lives, Richard Nixon will be on the federal dole forever at $400,000 a year -- $60,000 pension, $96,000 to cover his personal staff salaries, $40,000 for travel, $21,000 to cover his telephone bills and $100,000 for "miscellaneous.