Pay Peɪ Job Increase Rise Raise Workers Women

• her job is hard work, but the pay is good.
• a pay increase
• a pay rise
• a pay raise

pay

1. the money that somebody gets for doing regular work
• see also sick pay
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• Her job is hard work, but the pay is good.
• a pay increase
• a pay rise
• a pay raise
• a 3% pay offer
• holiday pay
• to make a pay claim (= to officially ask for an increase in pay)
• people on low incomes
• a weekly wage of £200
• The job offers good rates of pay.
• a rise in average earnings for factory workers
2. working for somebody or for an organization, often secretly
• He was in the pay of the drugs barons.

Extra Examples

• He doubled his pay by accepting bribes.
• He has been suspended without pay.
• He has taken leave on half pay.
• He’s at the top of his company’s pay scale.
• His pay package including bonuses was worth at least $12 million.
• The job offers good rates of pay and excellent conditions.
• The workers are demanding their back pay.
• Women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay.
• Women are still decades away from achieving pay equity with men.
• a day off with pay
• equal pay for men and women
• holidays with pay
• industrial unrest over pay levels in the public sector
• the average take-home pay of a manual worker
• the money in my weekly pay packet
• workers on low pay
• He was stuck without a penny until his next pay day.
• a 3% pay raise
• sick pay

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘pacify’): from Old French paie (noun), payer (verb), from Latin pacare ‘appease’, from pax, pac- ‘peace’. The notion of ‘payment’ arose from the sense of ‘pacifying’ a creditor.