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SALARY
Definition of SALARY
noun
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English salarie, from Anglo-Norman salarie, from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium (“wages”), the neuter form of the adjective salārius (“related to salt”), from sal (“salt”). There have been various attempts to explain how the Latin term for “wages” came from the adjective “related to salt”. It is generally assumed that salārium was an abbreviation of salārium argentum (“salt money”), though that phrase is not attested. A commonly cited theory states that the phrase meant “money consisting of salt”, because, supposedly, Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt, but there is no evidence for either of these claims from ancient sources. Another is that the phrase meant “money used to buy salt [and other miscellaneous items]”.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SALARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SALARY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AALRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start SALARY
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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