paycheck
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈpeɪˌtʃɛk/
- US
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sueldo
- After months of searching for a job, she finally received her first paycheck last Friday.
- earn a paycheck
- get a paycheck
- receive a paycheck
Which is why you should get paycheck advance from Current.
- Which is why you should get paycheck advance from Current.
- I'm doing this job because it's, it's a paycheck and it's a comfort zone.
- A writer is always chasing a paycheck, not a creator.
- If you need a paycheck, you've sold your soul.
- That means they have less money in their paychecks to buy other things with, right?
- And most importantly of all, saved a good bit of my paycheck every month.
- Elise's been going for five years and I just took my first fucking paycheck ever last week.
- Is it that some of my paycheck goes to the stocks, some goes to cash?
- Not that there's anything wrong with people showing up for a paycheck, but that this work.
- We have governments, we have paychecks, we have taxes, right?
Examples
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Your employer takes money out of your paycheck for taxes, right?
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Perhaps most important, the job gives one the ability to earn a steady paycheck as a performing musician.
Academic text (2015) -
You must have spent your entire paycheck on that.
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"Well, when you get your paycheck, you have to pay me rent," she said.
Fiction book (1993) -
Take it out of my paycheck.
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You know they take taxes out of your paycheck?
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It's great to have a steady paycheck.
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Every month, she takes the rent money out of the paycheck Travis sends to her.
Fiction book (1998) -
And next week when our paychecks hit, we're done with debt.
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Your paychecks will reflect the gratitude of the company.
Synonyms
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1.4
Money paid regularly to a worker, often each week
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1.0
Money you receive for work or services
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1.3
A regular fixed payment from an employer to an employee, usually monthly
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2.7
A written payment that an employer gives an employee for work
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3.5
The money a worker gets for work, often in an envelope
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3.2
An envelope that holds the money a worker gets, often given on pay day
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5.8
An envelope that holds a worker's pay, often given weekly
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Etymology
Paycheck is a simple combination of pay ('money for work') and check ('a paper that tells a bank to give money'). So a paycheck is the paper or payment a worker receives for their work.