Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A check issued to an employee in payment of salary or wages.
- noun Salary or wages.
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- noun Money received on
payday as payment for work performed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a check issued in payment of wages or salary
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's true that for most people in this country, the paycheck is the proximate source of all good things.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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It's true that for most people in this country, the paycheck is the proximate source of all good things.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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It's true that for most people in this country, the paycheck is the proximate source of all good things.
Rebecca R. Scott: Almost Heaven or Almost Hell? Fossil Fuels, Paychecks and Nature Rebecca R. Scott 2010
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First, any rookie economist will tell you that creating a job by extorting money from the populace, filtering it through any number of government agencies (where they skim off their percentage for handling it) and turning it into a paycheck is the absolute worst way to do it.
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But if you get Clarke's name on the cover, your paycheck is also a heck of a lot bigger, because you sold more books!
2004: A Space Onion 2004
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Working for a company your paycheck is already tied to that company.
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They rarely say so, but everyone in a while of them tests the water by saying things like what Bloomberg columnist Kevin Hassett did recently: "Your fat paycheck is keeping your neighbor unemployed."
Terrance Heath: Minimal Wages For All Terrance Heath 2010
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More photos and interactive graphics To fill the employment gap, the government has promised to triple the number of independent businesses, pushing those who once drew a paycheck from the government into a new private sector.
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My paycheck is direct-deposited into the HUEB account.
The Price of Civil Disobedience frankwu 2009
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They rarely say so, but everyone in a while of them tests the water by saying things like what Bloomberg columnist Kevin Hassett did recently: "Your fat paycheck is keeping your neighbor unemployed."
Terrance Heath: Minimal Wages For All Terrance Heath 2010
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