adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonsalaried adjective
- unsalaried adjective
Etymology
Origin of salaried
Example Sentences
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In order to mimic work, particularly monthly salaried employment, new claimants have to wait five weeks for their first payment.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
The last half decade has not generated salaried jobs in adequate numbers, the report finds.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
To update withholdings, hourly and salaried workers would have to change what’s on a Form W-4, the employee’s withholding certificate.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025
It also didn’t apply to executives and other salaried white-collar workers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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