Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The day on which employees' salaries or wages are paid.
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- noun The
day of theweek ormonth , or the specific day, on which anemployee 'swages orsalary ispaid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the day on which you receive pay for your work
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Examples
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If you're lucky, you might not be familiar with the term "payday loan".
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If you're lucky, you might not be familiar with the term "payday loan".
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An author seeking damages would do better, one would have thought, by claiming to have become so addled that she had decided to forsake a certain payday for the vain hope of literary success ....
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Hillary and her supporters are wrong and they know it but payday is coming.
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It changes short-term payday loans – with typical terms of just a week or two until the borrower's next payday – into six-month loans.
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What leads to looting of taxpayers is: (1) not having to defend *any* reasonable story about future returns (2) politically enabled players taking a short term payday on a huge amount of unsustainable business (3) with the players knowing somebody else will pay for the ultimate massive shortfall, a shortfall much more massive that the monies actually looted.
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Despite seven trips to the disabled list in eight seasons, J.D. received his largest payday from the Red Sox this year, agreeing to a five-year, $70 million deal after forgoing the final three years of his contract with the Dodgers that would have paid him $33 million.
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Short-term payday loans with excessive interest rates can quickly turn into a crushing long-term debt.
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Jim Talent (R-MO) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) that places a cap of 36 percent on high interest rates for short-term payday loans to military members.
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I've got to go figure out when payday is for the school district.
Big Huge Yawn reudaly 2002
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