pay envelope

noun

an envelope containing a paycheck or wages.
Informal. wages or salary; paycheck.

Words nearby pay envelope

pay cable, pay court to, pay dirt, pay dirt, hit, pay down, pay envelope, pay for, pay grade, pay in, pay off, pay one's dues

Example sentences from the Web for pay envelope

  • I don't know whether they did so or not; but Don's epigrams and bon mots would adorn any pay-envelope anthology.

    Shandygaff |Christopher Morley

  • Here Caleb stopped, and began slitting the pay-envelope with a great thumb-nail shaped like a half-worn shoe-horn.

    Caleb West, Master Diver |F. Hopkinson Smith

  • The money is universally diffused, in the sense that it is kept invested, and it passes into the pay-envelope week by week.

    Random Reminiscences of Men and Events |John D. Rockefeller