Entitlement vs Salary - What's the difference?
entitlement | salary |
The right to have something.
Something that one is entitled to.
(politics) A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
* Shakespeare
* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
As nouns the difference between entitlement and salary
is that entitlement is the right to have something while salary is a fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.As a verb salary is
to pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.As an adjective salary is
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(en noun)salary
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* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(salaries)- This is hire and salary , not revenge.
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- Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.