pay envelope
Americannoun
-
an envelope containing a paycheck or wages.
-
Informal. wages or salary; paycheck.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I hand my pay envelope to my wife without opening it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope.
From Time Magazine Archive
Welcome to 1990: millions of American workers have by now ripped open their first pay envelope and discovered an unpleasant surprise: their take-home is less than it was in December.
From Time Magazine Archive
Burton handed Ned his pay envelope and walked off.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
