salary

«salary» in Mova's school dictionary: paid for their job, usually the same amount every month… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a salary, salaries)

meaning for a pupil

The money a person is paid for their job, usually the same amount every month or year. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and money lessons, pupils learn that adults earn a salary for working and use it to pay for food, rent and bills. In maths, salary appears in problems about yearly and monthly pay and saving. Phrases: earn a salary, a high salary, a yearly salary, salary per month.

examples

• My aunt earns a good salary as a nurse. tree →
• A teacher's salary is paid every month. tree →
• Her salary went up this year. tree →
• He saves part of his salary. tree →
• If the yearly salary is 36,000 dollars, the monthly salary is 3,000 dollars. tree →
• Footballers can have very large salaries. tree →
• People with a salary pay tax. tree →
• "Now he'll get a salary," said the man. tree →

note

Countable: a salary, salaries. "Wage" or "wages" usually means pay worked out by the hour or week; a salary is a fixed amount for the year. Maths: monthly salary = yearly salary ÷ 12; weekly is about yearly ÷ 52. Spelling: "salary", not "sallary" or "celery" (a vegetable).

In the corpora

• Adults earn money by working, and their salary pays for the home, food and bills.
• Adults earn a salary by doing a job, and that money pays for the home, food and bills.
• A salary is a fixed amount paid for a job, usually every month.
• A wage or salary is the money a worker is paid for their work.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «salary» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.