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backpay

backpay is the alternative form of back pay.

Meaning of back pay

Noun

back pay (countable and uncountable, plural back pays)

  1. A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.
  2. Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.

Forms of backpay

pluralbackpays

Origin of backpay

From back- + pay.

Questions about backpay

What is backpay the alternative form of?
Backpay is the alternative form of back pay.

Words near backpay in the dictionary

  1. backpatches
  2. backpatching
  3. backpats
  4. backpatted
  5. backpatting
  6. backpay
  7. backpays
  8. backpedal
  9. backpedaled
  10. backpedaler
  11. backpedalers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpay (page history and authors); back pay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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