Fixed compensation for services, paid to a person on a regular basis, The recompense or consideration stipulated to be paid to a person periodically for services, usually a fixed sum to be paid by the year, half-year, or quarter. See wages, A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually measured on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy, verb_ To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation, transitive verb_ To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to, adjective_ obsolete Saline