back pay

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back +‎ pay

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back pay (countable and uncountable, plural back pays)

  1. A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.
  2. Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.

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