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pay rise

pay rise noun: an increase in salary or wages.

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

pay rise meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian

pay rise in Tamil

சம்பள உயர்வு, ஊதிய உயர்வு

pay rise in Arabic

increase in pay
زِيَادَة فِي المُرَتَّب

pay rise in Indonesian

increase in pay
kenaikan gaji

Synonyms of pay rise

Forms of pay rise

pluralpay rises
alternative formpayrise

Words formed from pay rise

Questions about pay rise

What does pay rise mean?
Pay rise means an increase in salary or wages.
What is pay rise in Tamil?
Pay rise in Tamil is சம்பள உயர்வு, ஊதிய உயர்வு. See Pay rise meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pay rise?
Pay rise is a noun.
What is the plural of pay rise?
The plural of pay rise is pay rises.

Words near pay rise in the dictionary

  1. pay piggy
  2. pay pigs
  3. pay raise
  4. pay raises
  5. pay respect
  6. pay rise
  7. pay rises
  8. pay roll
  9. pay rolls
  10. pay run
  11. pay runs

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