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salary

noun as in money paid for work done

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Keaton made $6,000 for “The Godfather,” less than a quarter of her salary for the national deodorant commercial she’d shot a year earlier.

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In the U.K., for instance, student-loan payments are automatically withdrawn from employees’ salaries like taxes.

She writes fondly of this period, in the last days of the 1970s — a group of avid young journalists, friends and colleagues, living off their small salaries in an affordable city.

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His monthly salary of $35 is paid directly to his father.

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“Still, financial experts often recommend having at least eight times your annual salary saved by this age.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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