special duty allowance
- noun
:
asignación por deber especial
- To compensate for additional responsibilities, a special duty allowance was included in his monthly salary.
Examples
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The company introduced a special duty allowance for employees working on high-priority projects.
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Staff members who take on extra administrative roles are eligible for a special duty allowance.
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The company offers a special duty allowance for employees with extra responsibilities.
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Did you receive your special duty allowance this month?
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For taking on extra projects, he received a special duty allowance as part of his compensation.
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The government agency provides a special duty allowance to employees who handle sensitive information.
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Employees assigned to special tasks are often granted a special duty allowance to recognize their additional workload.
Synonyms
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Money you earn in addition to your regular pay
Extra money employers pay employees for work beyond their normal tasks
Extra pay for employees who do work beyond their normal job tasks
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'allowance' denotes a sum of money, 'duty' denotes a responsibility, and 'special' qualifies the duty as additional or exceptional. A B1 learner who knows these words can readily infer it means an extra payment for special responsibilities, and this noun-compound pattern is regular and cross-linguistically familiar.
Etymology
The compound special duty allowance comes from the simple image of someone getting extra money for extra work: special means extra, duty means a job or task, and allowance means money given to help. So, it means 'extra pay' for 'special tasks' beyond a person's normal job.