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pay freeze

pay freeze noun: a period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.

Noun

pay freeze (plural pay freezes)

  1. A period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.
    • Against a backdrop of economic devastation wreaked by COVID-19, from which the railway has been almost totally insulated by massive sums of public money, the RMT rail union is now calling for industrial action as a pay freeze beckons. [...] While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze...2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62

Forms of pay freeze

pluralpay freezes

Questions about pay freeze

What does pay freeze mean?
Pay freeze means a period in which no wage or salary increases occur, when wages and salaries are frozen.
What part of speech is pay freeze?
Pay freeze is a noun.
What is the plural of pay freeze?
The plural of pay freeze is pay freezes.

Words near pay freeze in the dictionary

  1. pay for itself
  2. pay for one's whistle
  3. pay for play
  4. pay fors
  5. pay forward
  6. pay freeze
  7. pay freezes
  8. pay gap
  9. pay gaps
  10. pay good money after bad
  11. pay gorn

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