pay claim
- noun
- Jargon
:
reclamación salarial
- After months of negotiation, the union formally submitted a pay claim to the management for better wages.
Examples
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True, there's an incentive to not pay claims, but there's also the government telling them what claims they have to pay.
Blog text (5) -
If you hold an insurance policy, it is in your interest for your insurer not to pay claims to other policyholders.
Blog text (5) -
In fact, for the first time ever, journalists went on strike at the end of November over pay claims, and teachers and other civil servants threatened to do likewise in December.
Academic text (1990) -
As of 2007, Maryland permits recovery on a "bad faith" theory against insurers who refuse to pay claims where liability is not "fairly debatable."
Blog text (5) -
The workers organized a protest to present their pay claim for a fair salary increase.
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During the meeting, employees voiced their concerns and filed a pay claim to demand higher pay.
Synonyms
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2.6
A request for money or help because you believe you have a right to it
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3.4
An official request by workers for higher pay
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'pay' (remuneration) + 'claim' (a formal demand), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a demand concerning wages. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal noun+noun modifier logic, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Pay claim comes from the simple image of workers saying they deserve more pay and making a formal claim, for example by sending a letter or holding signs. So a pay claim is 'a formal demand' by workers for higher wages.