pay envelope

noun

Definition of pay envelope

: an envelope containing one's wages

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with this recession going on, workers shouldn't be expecting fatter pay envelopes

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Roosevelt tied Landon to employers who had been slipping anti-Social Security propaganda into their workers’ pay envelopes. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: A Republican senator hints at gutting Social Security ‘behind closed doors’," 6 Sep. 2019

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The first known use of pay envelope was in 1889

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pay envelope

noun

English Language Learners Definition of pay envelope

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: an envelope that contains your wages

: the money that you regularly earn : a wage or salary

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