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
Those debts, per the outlet, included employees missing a recent paycheck, while freelancers and vendors awaited unpaid funds.
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Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
In later years, some may see the benefit directly in their paychecks through lower tax withholding, added the center.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
No one enters education for a big paycheck.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Almost immediately, many agencies halted automatic deductions of union dues from employee paychecks, cutting off a critical source of cash flow to the unions.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
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Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
In later years, some may see the benefit directly in their paychecks through lower tax withholding, added the center.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
No one enters education for a big paycheck.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Almost immediately, many agencies halted automatic deductions of union dues from employee paychecks, cutting off a critical source of cash flow to the unions.
—Andrea Hsu, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for paycheck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paycheck
Noun
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This provision prohibits salary-cap circumvention, meaning arrangements by teams to compensate players outside of their employment contracts.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Workers injured on the job can receive regular payments based on their salary, plus coverage of medical bills to treat their injuries.—
TOM KERTSCHER,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Not only in terms of performance and Bundesliga survival, but also in the worth (and desirability) of some of these individual players, whose success could help Bremen — a traditional club, but with a modest wage spend — move up the food chain.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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The contract with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 350 runs through April 20, 2028 and calls for a 3% increase in wages for the first year and additional increases of 2% to 3% in following years, depending on the increases to employee health/dental premiums.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The payment goes through my friend’s fiancé’s mother’s Tesla account, the poor woman accidentally footing the bill.—
Joe Joyce,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The state agency, which is in charge of the unemployment program, will be required to search its archives and locate the people denied benefits and obtain their payment information in order to send out unemployment benefits they were denied, according to the order.—
Laura Schulte,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Paycheck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paycheck. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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