as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
almost half of her paycheck goes to child care and transportation expenses
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Recent Examples of paycheck
Many tech companies are scrambling to hire top-notch AI leaders and researchers, using multi-million dollar paychecks to entice them.
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Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 4 July 2025
The firefighter has worked for the fire department for 20 years, and noticed that his paycheck funds were scheduled to be released by his bank on Monday.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
The teenager blew most of his first paycheck on buying a magic trick.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
That means filling up at the pump is swallowing up a smaller and smaller chunk of paychecks.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
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Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 4 July 2025
The firefighter has worked for the fire department for 20 years, and noticed that his paycheck funds were scheduled to be released by his bank on Monday.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 4 July 2025
The teenager blew most of his first paycheck on buying a magic trick.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
That means filling up at the pump is swallowing up a smaller and smaller chunk of paychecks.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paycheck
Noun
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Lazard will have a base salary of $2.25 million this upcoming season.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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Raise salaries, diminish contractual obligations to teach, include the expenses of laboratory instruction and add the depreciation of expensive buildings — all factors in the sciences — and tuition becomes wholly inadequate to cover even the cost of instruction.—
Clifford Ando,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
Noun
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This begs a clear question of training providers, employers, and governments: What if your workforce investment strategy was judged not by how many people enrolled, but by how many got hired with better wages after completing it?—
Jason Wingard,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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More than 3,000 Sacramento County workers went on strike Tuesday morning urging the Board of Supervisors to raise employee wages.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2025
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More: Car buyers set a record with more than $1,000-a-month car payments in Q2 Jamie L. LaReau is the senior autos writer who covers Ford Motor Co. for the Detroit Free Press.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
Freep.com,
12 July 2025
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More detail is also expected on payments made during production and whether any money fell into the hands of Hamas.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
12 July 2025
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“Paycheck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paycheck. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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