Definition of Pay packet

1. Noun. Wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner.

Exact synonyms: Pay Envelope
Generic synonyms: Earnings, Pay, Remuneration, Salary, Wage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pay Packet

pay check
pay cheque
pay claim
pay cut
pay day
pay dirt
pay envelope
pay for
pay grade
pay heed
pay off
pay one's debt to society
pay one's dues
pay one's last respects
pay out
pay packet (current term)
pay rate
pay stub
pay stubs
pay television
pay the bills
pay the debt of nature
pay the fiddler
pay the freight
pay the penalty
pay the piper
pay the price
pay through the nose
pay up
payability

Literary usage of Pay packet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Past Caringby Audrey Jenkinson by Audrey Jenkinson (2004)
"I can do it but nobody offers me a pay packet. Then I thought okay, no good sitting here just ... That month I got my first pay packet in thirty years. ..."

2. Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev by Mervyn Matthews (1989)
"It is not surprising that 27.5 percent stated they were "always" short of money before receiving their pay packet, and 44.6 percent said it happened ..."

3. A Piece of the Action: Employee Ownership, Equity Pay and the Rise of the by Charles Leadbeater (1997)
"For a majority of the staff at Adobe the traditional pay packet is just one component of their overall compensation. Adobe's equity pay approach is ..."

4. Heartache of Motherhood by Joyce Nicholson (1983)
"They could pay a proportion of a husband's pay packet direct to the wife, to ensure she has enough money to feed her children, with even some left over for ..."

5. The Third Way to a Good Society by Amitai Etzioni (2000)
"Mr Brown's plan also calls for new incentives to encourage pay-packet donations. People will be able, through the scrapping of the £250 minimum limit for ..."

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