Word.ws English Dictionary

payrise

payrise is the alternative 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 payrise

pluralpayrises

Origin of payrise

From pay + rise.

Questions about payrise

What is payrise the alternative form of?
Payrise is the alternative form of pay rise.

Words near payrise in the dictionary

  1. paypigs
  2. paypoint
  3. paypoints
  4. payraise
  5. payraises
  6. payrise
  7. payrises
  8. payroll
  9. payroll tax
  10. payroll taxes
  11. payrolled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: payrise (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “payrise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/payrise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.