PAYCHECK | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of paycheck in English paychecknoun [ C ] mainly US (also pay check) uk /ˈpeɪ.tʃek/ us /ˈpeɪ.tʃek/ (UK usually pay cheque) Add to word list Add to word list (also UK pay packet) the amount of money a person is paid monthly, weekly, etc., for their work, or on one occasion for doing a single piece of work: It's easy to go on expensive holidays when you have a paycheck the size of hers.live paycheck to paycheck About four out of ten households live paycheck to paycheck (= have almost no money left by the time they receive their next paycheck). The actor usually receives a paycheck of around $5 million a movie. She saves 20% of her pay check. the cheque or other form of payment used to pay an employee the amount of money they have earned: They were told their final paychecks would be available on Friday. He sometimes has to go to several places to find someone who will cash his paycheck. The amount written on his pay check seemed wrong.

• The money comes out of your paycheck before taxes.
• Executives of large companies tend to draw bigger paychecks.
• They needed a receipt, stamped by the bank, indicating that their paycheck had indeed been deposited.

Earning money

• assessable
• bank
• base pay
• basic
• basic income
• coin
• feather your own nest idiom
• gross
• killing
• laugh
• non-wage
• nonearning
• not get out of bed for something idiom
• on commission
• operating
• salaried
• scrape a living idiom
• starting salary
• stipend
• stoppage

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paycheck | American Dictionary

paychecknoun [ C ] us /ˈpeɪˌtʃek/ Add to word list Add to word list a check used to pay an employee the amount of money the employee has earned (Definition of paycheck from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

paycheck | Business English

paychecknoun [ C ]   FINANCE   US /ˈpeɪtʃek/ uk us Add to word list Add to word list →  pay cheque (Definition of paycheck from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of paycheck

paycheck The stability of salaried railway workers' marriages seems to have been linked to their steady paychecks. From the Cambridge English Corpus Previously, employers paid the pension payroll tax, and it was not reported on wage earner's paychecks. From the Cambridge English Corpus As this suggests, wage earners who brought home steady paychecks were often seen as good mates because they could be good providers. From the Cambridge English Corpus At t=0, the agent starts work and saves a constant fraction, s, of his pre-tax paycheck, w(t), in a retirement savings account. From the Cambridge English Corpus Those who did not were punished by the deduction of a "celibacy tax" from their paychecks, and women of childbearing age were forced to undergo gynecological exams in their workplaces. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is a very old and traditional role for archaeology; the new boss is the same as the old boss, only the names signing the paychecks have changed. From the Cambridge English Corpus Increasingly, social life became focused on the urban areas, where steady paychecks made some railway workers bigger men than they would have been back at home. From the Cambridge English Corpus For good or ill, paycheck protection would only heighten the contradictions between the pluralistic assumptions that inform the postwar campaign finance system and the emerging realities of power. From the Cambridge English Corpus This extreme case of subsidizing funded all college expenses for football players, plus paychecks to top performers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The cost of housing, food and laundry was deducted from employee paychecks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even though they have the money to pay the employees' paychecks, money still goes missing, but they have worse problems. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Financing and approval is done on site with a paycheck stub or proof of income and a utility bill. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rolled up bundle of bills in his pocket was from two recent paychecks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The lessons cost thirteen dollars per week at a time that she had a thirty-eight dollar per week paycheck. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There was no paycheck, but they could make a few bucks profit on each bottle sold. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of paycheck These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of paycheck?

Translations of paycheck

in Chinese (Traditional) 工資… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 工资… See more in Spanish sueldo, cheque de pago de salario [masculine, singular]… See more in Portuguese salário, salário [masculine], cheque de pagamento [masculine]… See more in Polish in Turkish in French in Norwegian pensja… See more maaş/ücret çeki… See more paie [feminine], paye [feminine], salaire [masculine]… See more lønning [masculine]… See more Need a translator?

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