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PAYE

PAYE is the initialism of pay as you earn.

PAYE is the initialism of pay-as-you-eat.

PAYE is the initialism of pay at year end.

Meaning of pay as you earn

Noun

pay as you earn (uncountable)

  1. (UK) The national system whereby income tax and national insurance is deducted by an employer from the salary or wages of an employee.
    Synonyms:
    PAYE

Meaning of pay-as-you-eat

Noun

pay-as-you-eat (uncountable)

  1. A catering scheme in universities etc. in which diners pay only for the food they consume, rather than a fixed fee.
    Synonyms:
    PAYE

Proper noun capitalized: Paye

Paye (plural Payes)

  1. A surname.

Forms of PAYE

pluralPayes

Questions about PAYE

What does PAYE mean?
PAYE means a surname.
What is PAYE the initialism of?
PAYE is the initialism of pay as you earn.
What part of speech is PAYE?
PAYE is a proper noun.

Words near PAYE in the dictionary

  1. paydays
  2. paydirt
  3. paydirts
  4. paydown
  5. paydowns
  6. PAYE
  7. payed
  8. payed out
  9. payedst
  10. payee
  11. payees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: PAYE (page history and authors); Paye (page history and authors); pay as you earn (page history and authors); pay-as-you-eat (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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