Definition of Pay envelope

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

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pay Envelope

pay-phone
pay-station
pay-to-play
pay TV
pay and display
pay as you earn
pay attention
pay back
pay cash
pay check
pay cheque
pay claim
pay cut
pay day
pay dirt
pay envelope (current term)
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
pay rate
pay stub
pay stubs
pay television
pay the bills

Literary usage of Pay envelope

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

1. Italian Women in Industry: A Study of Conditions in New York City by Louise Christine Odencrantz, Russell Sage Foundation (1919)
"For the sake of what her pay envelope contains she will sit hour after hour at a sewing machine guiding hundreds of corset covers; at a table piled high ..."

2. Office Management, Its Principles and Practice: Covering Organization by Lee Galloway (1918)
"It is important that the various items Figure 92. Employee's pay envelope Information as to bonus and deduction for errors is given. ..."

3. The Human Factor in Industry by Lee Kaufer Frankel, Alexander Fleisher (1920)
"Usually the employe goes to the pay office, receives his pay envelope and signs a ... The pay envelope of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is unique. ..."

4. Handbook of Machine Shop Management by John Herbert Van Deventer (1915)
"Occasionally the pay envelope, or a part of it, is made to answer for the receipt. ... The pay envelope goes to the paymaster to be filled, and the receipt ..."

5. Short Talks on Psychology by Charles Gray Shaw (1920)
"HI PSYCHOLOGY AND THE pay envelope NO one can pay any degree of attention to the workings of the mind without noticing that our human consciousness has its ..."

6. Professional Preparation of High School Teachers by Guy Montrose Whipple, Harry Lloyd Miller (1919)
"He hands me my pay envelope. 7. I say, "Thank you." 8. I open the pay envelope. 9. I take out the money. 10. I count the money. 11. It is correct. 12. ..."

7. Mobilizing Woman-power by Harriot Stanton Blatch (1918)
"The free man is more alert to obligation, more conscientious in performance, than the bond servant. So is the free woman. With pay envelope, or pension, ..."

8. Practical English for New Americans by Rose M. O'Toole (1921)
"He opened his pay envelope. There were four five dollar bills in it and he had earned only ... Nicolas went to his foreman and showed him his pay envelope. ..."

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