| Main Entry: | bacon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flitch |
Synonyms: |
gammon, pancetta, pork, pork slab, porkbellies, rasher, sowbelly |
| Main Entry: | businessperson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | professional working person |
Synonyms: |
baron, big wheel, big-time operator, businessman, businesswoman, capitalist, career person, dealer, employer, entrepreneur, executive, financier, franchiser, gray flannel suit, industrialist, manager, merchandiser, merchant, operator, organization person, small potatoes, storekeeper, suit*, the bacon, tradesperson, trafficker, tycoon, wheeler-dealer, working woman |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
Synonyms: |
aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, bacon, bread, bread and butter, care, carrying, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, prolongation, provision, repairs, resources, retainment, salt, subsistence, supply, sustaining, sustainment, sustention, upkeep, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
desertion, forsaking, ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | pay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings from employment |
Synonyms: |
allowance, bacon, bread, commission, compensation, consideration, defrayment, emoluments, fee, hire*, honorarium, income, indemnity, meed, payment, perquisite, pittance, proceeds, profit, reckoning, recompensation, recompense, redress, reimbursement, remuneration, reparation, requital, return, reward, salary, satisfaction, scale, settlement, stipend, stipendium, take-home, takings, wage, wages |
| Main Entry: | salary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money paid for work done |
Synonyms: |
bacon, bread, earnings, emolument, fee, hire, income, pay, payroll, recompense, remuneration, scale, stipend, take, take-home, wage, wages |
| Notes: | salary is from Latin salarium - originally prize money given to Roman soldiers to buy salt; a person receiving regular payment for work is receiving a salary, while one who is paid by the hour or for an amount of work done is being paid a wage |
Antonyms: |
debt |
| Main Entry: | sustenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | necessities for existence |
Synonyms: |
aid, aliment, bacon, bread and butter, bread, comestible, daily bread, eatables, edibles, food, keep, livelihood, maintenance, nourishment, nutrition, pap, provender, provision, ration, refreshment, salt, subsistence, support, victual, wherewithal |
Antonyms: |
extras |
| Main Entry: | wage/wages |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earnings for work |
Synonyms: |
allowance, bacon and eggs, bacon, bread, compensation, cut, emolument, fee, hire, pay, payment, price, receipts, recompense, remuneration, return, returns, reward, salary, share, stipend, sugar*, take*, take-home |