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{
"term": "salary",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "money that employees receive for doing their job, especially professional employees or people working in an office, usually paid every month",
"sensetop": "on a salary (of something)",
"labels": "(British English)(North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an **annual salary** of $40 000"
},
{
"text": "The average **monthly salary** for an unskilled worker is $550."
},
{
"text": "She's on a salary of £24 000.",
"contextForm": "on a salary (of something)"
},
{
"text": "She **earned** a six-figure **salary**."
},
{
"text": "a 9 per cent **salary increase**"
},
{
"text": "He gets a **basic salary** plus commission."
},
{
"text": "**base salary**"
},
{
"text": "Chemical engineering grads are expected to get the biggest **starting salaries**."
},
{
"text": "the closure of final salary pension schemes"
},
{
"text": "We have no money to pay staff salaries."
},
{
"text": "The CEO received a salary of $1 million."
},
{
"text": "The average **annual salary** for those jobs was $90 721."
},
{
"text": "It's impossible to bring up a family on such a low salary."
},
{
"text": "US tech workers command six-figure salaries."
},
{
"text": "Mr Kerry continued to draw his salary during the time of his absence."
},
{
"text": "She raised his salary to $36 000."
},
{
"text": "The position is rewarded with a generous salary package."
},
{
"text": "The salary cap will be set at $49.5 million."
},
{
"text": "Top salaries are liable for a higher rate of tax."
},
{
"text": "What salary band will I be on after two years in the company?"
},
{
"text": "Workers are being asked to take a cut in salary."
},
{
"text": "Your pension will be based on a proportion of your final salary."
},
{
"text": "Texas has the lowest teacher salaries in America."
}
],
"topics": ["Working life", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["big", "generous", "good"],
"verb + salary": ["pay (somebody)", "command", "earn"],
"salary + verb": ["increase", "rise"],
"salary + noun": ["package", "hike", "increase"],
"preposition": ["on a salary"],
"phrases": [
"an increase in salary",
"a raise in salary",
"a rise in salary"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsæləri/",
"audio": "sa/salary/salary__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsæləri/",
"audio": "sa/salary/salary__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French salarie, from Latin salarium, originally denoting a Roman soldier's allowance to buy salt, from sal ‘salt’."
}