pay freezes
pay freezes is the plural of pay freeze.
Meaning of pay freeze
Noun
pay freeze (plural pay freezes)
- 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
Questions about pay freezes
- What is pay freezes the plural of?
- Pay freezes is the plural of pay freeze.
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