paycheck
noun
a bank check given as salary or wages.
paychecks
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pluralof paycheck.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For much of the past half-century, capital has grown faster than wages, rewarding people who owned financial assets more than those who relied on their paychecks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
In theory, a young investor could lock away their paychecks in such a strategy until retirement day and never open an account statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
You’re not going to get very rich making W-2 paychecks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
ADP manages the distribution of paychecks for more than 25 million employees at companies around the country.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Or if they had a job, the children in daycare or left with some brutal ignorant woman, and they’d have to pay for that themselves, out of their wretched little paychecks.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
