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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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
Says he: "That stuff's all right, but it's the pay envelope that counts."
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
Burton handed Ned his pay envelope and walked off.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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