wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
payment defrayal defrayment | the act of paying money |
requital payment | an act of requiting, returning in kind |
raise rise wage hike hike wage increase salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
wage claim pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
earner wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
transfer payment | a public expenditure (as for unemployment compensation or veteran's benefits) that is not for goods and services |
payment | a sum of money paid or a claim discharged |
wage pay earnings remuneration salary | something that remunerates, wages were paid by check, he wasted his pay on drink, they saved a quarter of all their earnings |
living wage | a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably |
minimum wage | the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay, determined by contract or by law |
regular payment | a payment made at regular times |
payment rate rate of payment repayment rate installment rate | the amount of money paid out per unit time |
support payment | a payment made by one person for the support of another |
payoff final payment | the final payment of a debt |
token payment | a small payment made in acknowledgement of an obligation |
down payment deposit | a partial payment made at the time of purchase, the balance to be paid later |
credit deferred payment | arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services |
draft bill of exchange order of payment | a document ordering the payment of money, drawn by one person or bank on another |
disability check disability payment | a monthly payment made to someone who has become disabled and is unable to work |
medicare check medicare payment | a check reimbursing an aged person for the expenses of health care |
cash immediate payment | prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check |
wage scale wage schedule | a schedule of wages paid for different jobs |
wage setter | any economic condition or variable that serves to set wage rates |
engage wage | carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns), Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe |
propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar | of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers, party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw |
wage-earning working-clas | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries, working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor |