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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Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts."
From Time Magazine Archive
There was nothing in the current troubles on the labor front that more money in the pay envelope would not cure.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the land of the rising woman, where a husband used to control his yen, millions of wives are buying stock by cutting corners and snipping off a larger hunk of the family pay envelope.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, we think that real standards of living depend not only on what is in the pay envelope, but on what we can buy with it.
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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