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pay raise

pay raise is the standard form of pay rise.

Meaning of pay rise

Noun

pay rise (plural pay rises)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, sometimes, rest of Commonwealth) An increase in salary or wages.
    • Whelan called the offer "risible", describing it as a "land grab for all the terms and conditions we have negotiating over the years". He demanded a no-strings pay offer that recognises the "significant cost of living increases" since the last pay rise in 2019.2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14
    Synonyms:
    raise, pay raise

Forms of pay raise

pluralpay raises
alternative formpayraise

Words formed from pay raise

Questions about pay raise

What is pay raise the standard form of?
Pay raise is the standard form of pay rise.

Words near pay raise in the dictionary

  1. pay phones
  2. pay pig
  3. pay piggies
  4. pay piggy
  5. pay pigs
  6. pay raise
  7. pay raises
  8. pay respect
  9. pay rise
  10. pay rises
  11. pay roll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pay raise (page history and authors); pay rise (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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