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paycheck

[ pey-chek ]

noun

  1. a bank check given as salary or wages.
  2. salary or wages:

    One can stretch the paycheck only just so far.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of paycheck1

First recorded in 1900–05; pay 1 + check 1

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Example Sentences

At the beginning of each week, she makes a list of expenses her paycheck will have to cover that week.

That leaves the families who make between that and the sustainable-wage level of $48,000 to struggle paycheck to paycheck.

Low-income work was a necessity, either to make up for the absence of a man or to bolster his own low-income paycheck.

You worked for it and your boss transfers it to you, along with your other benefits and paycheck, as compensation for your work.

After all, your health care plan belongs to you, as your paycheck does.

He was telling me—the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office.

It was only a matter of hours and our money was gone so we wired back to Oakland and each got $100 advance on our next paycheck.

Mrs. Reid, did you ever have any personal contact with Lee Harvey Oswald about such things as his paycheck or anything like that?

The warrant when received is deposited in a bank and a paycheck issued.

There are some things worth more to me than three meals a day and a paycheck.

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