PAYCHECK | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of paycheck in English

(Definition of paycheck from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of paycheck from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of paycheck from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of paycheck

paycheck
In other words, too many of us are living paycheck to paycheck.
From TIME
That's because we humans tend to view work as a social system, not just a place to draw a paycheck.
The 20-40% income taxes taken out of our paychecks are not too much?
The economy's growing, sure, but is your paycheck?
Her husband left her, she says, when the paychecks stopped coming.
Under current law, public workers contribute up to 10 percent of their paycheck toward their pensions and their employers must pay 14 percent.
Will the players hold that high ground once they start missing paychecks at the end of summer?
She plans to stay there until she receives a few paychecks, enough to rent her own place.
The costs of transportation increase these costs, so that it can take your whole paycheck to try to feed your family from the store.
From NPR
But if you are working you should strive to save at least 10% of every paycheck.
From TIME
Imagine this: you call your employer to see what happened to last month's paycheck since it didn't arrive.
They're working as hard as they ever have, but they're living paycheck to paycheck because the economy has changed underneath their feet.
From TIME
In the current state of our nation they are literally one paycheck away from being you or me or someone we know.
And it's certainly not going to get you a paycheck.
Single parents turn over a whopping 73 percent of their paycheck.
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Translations of paycheck

in Chinese (Traditional)
工資…
in Chinese (Simplified)
工资…
in Spanish
sueldo, cheque de pago de salario [masculine, singular]…
in Portuguese
salário, salário [masculine], cheque de pagamento [masculine]…
in more languages
in Polish
in Turkish
in French
in Norwegian
in Russian
pensja…
maaş/ücret çeki…
paie [feminine], paye [feminine], salaire [masculine]…
lønning [masculine]…
зарплата…
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