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Salary vs Share - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between salary and share

is that 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 while share is a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone or share can be (agriculture) the cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

As verbs the difference between salary and share

is that salary is to pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation while share is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

As an adjective salary

is (obsolete) saline.

salary

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(salaries)
  • 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
  • This is hire and salary , not revenge.
  • * 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
  • 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.

    See also

    * pay * remuneration * wage * wages

    Verb

  • To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) saline
  • share

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
  • (finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
  • (computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
  • Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share .
  • The sharebone or pubis.
  • (Holland)
    Derived terms
    * lion's share * share and share alike

    Verb

  • To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
  • To have or use in common.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:while avarice and rapine share the land
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • To divide and distribute.
  • *(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
  • *:Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
  • To tell to another.
  • :
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  • (lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
  • Derived terms
    * sharecropping * shareware * sharing economy

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) share, schare, shaar, from (etyl) scear, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
  • Derived terms
    * ploughshare * plowshare

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