Salary vs Wales - What's the difference?
salary | wales |
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.
One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom
(surname)
A city in Alaska.
A village in South Yorkshire, England.
A town in Maine.
A town in Massachusetts.
A town in New York.
A city in North Dakota.
A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.
A town in Utah.
A village in Wisconsin.
As nouns the difference between salary and wales
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 wales is .As verbs the difference between salary and wales
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 wales is (wale).As an adjective salary
is (obsolete) saline.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.
