pay packet

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

pay packet (plural pay packets)

1. A sealed envelope containing a person's wages.
   • 1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Cold comfort with the cash”, in Modern Railways, page 152:

     These were confusing times for all railwaymen, said Dr. Beeching in a message to B.R. staff, enclosed in their pay packets one week in July.

2. (by extension, idiomatic) The amount a person earns from employment.

Translations

sealed envelope containing wages

• Finnish: palkkapussi (fi)
• Swedish: lönekuvert n

amount a person earns

• Finnish: palkkapussi (fi)

References

• “pay packet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.