pay envelope
Americannoun
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an envelope containing a paycheck or wages.
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Informal. wages or salary; paycheck.
Example Sentences
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I hand my pay envelope to my wife without opening it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The buyer: a steelworker with plenty of overtime in his pay envelope and a thriving bank account.
From Time Magazine Archive
For workers who have to leave war production to go back to civilian production, with its generally lower pay rates, the size of the pay envelope is likely to shrink even more.
From Time Magazine Archive
C.A.A. could push the pay envelope because it represented so much A-list talent, from Tom Cruise to Tom Hanks and Steven Seagal to Steven Spielberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
She leaned across her desk and snatched the pay envelope from my hand.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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