pay day

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pay day - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pay \Pay\, n.
     1. Satisfaction; content. --Chaucer.
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     2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or
        services performed; salary or wages for work or service;
        compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a
        clerk; the pay of a soldier.
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              Where only merit constant pay receives. --Pope.
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              There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay;
        especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or
        military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.
        
  
     Half pay. See under Half.
  
     Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts.
  
     Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the
        miner. [Western U.S.]
  
     Pay office, a place where payment is made.
  
     Pay roll,
        (a) a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with
            the amounts due; now usually one word, payroll.
        (b) the total sum of money which is paid to all employees
            on payday.
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