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
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
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
At story's end, with the G.I.s and the big pay envelope gone, he is getting ready to plant corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
The postmaster would argue, reasonably, he’s got no other way to support his family—his pay envelope arrives empty each week, with an official printed statement about emergency economic measures.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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