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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The boy's thin pay envelope and a little something in the savings bank kept the family off the town but unless something turned up they would lose the house, sure.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hand my pay envelope to my wife without opening it.
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
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
The postmaster would argue, reasonably, he’s got no other way to support his family—his pay envelope arrives empty each week, with an official printed statement about emergency economic measures.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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