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a system of wage payment whereby all or part of the wage varies systematically according to the level of work performance of an employee

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How to use payment by results in a sentence

The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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The results, as you can plainly see, are as trippy as they are webby.
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A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.
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Those snakes attacked unwitting passers-by, or invaded homes and hotels.
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All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
How is it that one instant of time should work those effects in the human mind which are so lasting in their results!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
Smith's method usually gives good results, as does also the more simple method of Hiss (p. 263).
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It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
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