back pay
pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively
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How to use back pay in a sentence
Those employees may or may not get back pay when the shutdown ends.
How the Government Shutdown Hurts National Security | Josh Rogin | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe jury handed down the verdict that the parsons were entitled to their back pay but awarded damages of one penny to each parson.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyWe always tried to make a man who had drawn a lot of back pay deposit it or send it home.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltI've got that thief Mulvaney's for all my back-pay, an' she'll kick my heart sick wid that blunderin' long shtock av hers.
Soldier Stories | Rudyard KiplingHarvey was able to collect some of his back pay and to obtain the King's agreement that he should return in a ship of war.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 | Wilcomb E. Washburn
But the possible loss of his back pay would be a catastrophe.
Billy and the Big Stick | Richard Harding Davis
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