paycheck

[ pey-chek ]

/ ˈpeɪˌtʃɛk /

a bank check given as salary or wages.

salary or wages: One can stretch the paycheck only just so far.

Origin of paycheck

First recorded in 1900–05; pay¹ + check¹

pay-per-view, pay-to-play, payable, payback, paybox, paycheck, payday, payday lender, paye, payee, payer

At the beginning of each week, she makes a list of expenses her paycheck will have to cover that week.

Care Providers Fight for $15 and a Union |Jasmin Almodovar, Shirley Thompson |December 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
That leaves the families who make between that and the sustainable-wage level of $48,000 to struggle paycheck to paycheck.

Free Market Failure: Raising a Kid Is a Rigged Game in the USA |Monica Potts |August 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
You worked for it and your boss transfers it to you, along with your other benefits and paycheck, as compensation for your work.

Your Health Care, Your Choices (Amen, to That!) |Amanda Marcotte |March 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
After all, your health care plan belongs to you, as your paycheck does.

Your Health Care, Your Choices (Amen, to That!) |Amanda Marcotte |March 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

This man, more than any other free agent, needs to find a new team and receive a paycheck.

First Mega-Deal Is Done as the NFL’s Free Agent Scrap Begins |Ben Teitelbaum |March 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Mrs. Reid, did you ever have any personal contact with Lee Harvey Oswald about such things as his paycheck or anything like that?

Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
There are some things worth more to me than three meals a day and a paycheck.

The Chameleon Man |William P. McGivern
His third weekly paycheck of twenty-two dollars and fifty cents was in his pocket.

Plowing On Sunday |Sterling North
Tens of millions of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.

Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006 |Various
Only thirty-two in the account, but he would deposit his paycheck today which would bring it up.

The Syndic |C.M. Kornbluth