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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In Whiting, Ind., Mrs. Elizabeth Koby, a $42-a-week Standard Oil employe, received her two-week pay envelope, found she had been overpaid by $99,999,910.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts."
From Time Magazine Archive
If you choose lower wages for the same number of hours you cut the dollars in the pay envelope and automatically cut down the purchasing power of the worker himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
In steel mills and chemical plants, yesterday's blue-collar worker now wears white overalls, sits at a pushbutton panel as massive as a cathedral organ, and takes home a technician's fat pay envelope.
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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