as in salary
the money paid regularly to a person for labor or services
almost half of her paycheck goes to child care and transportation expenses
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Recent Examples of paycheck
Hunter Pence, a nerd at heart, spent money from his first paycheck to buy himself a gaming computer to play World of Warcraft.
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Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
30 June 2026
Your bonus paycheck should be more than enough to meet the $1 minimum opening deposit requirement.
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Elizabeth Gravier,dan Avery,
CNBC,
30 June 2026
They were just stuck in a paycheck-to-paycheck rut like their neighbors and 29% of American families who qualify as the working poor.
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Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
28 June 2026
The writer-director has been crafting stories of tough-talking guys ever since (with the occasional paycheck diversion into something like the live-action Aladdin).
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Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for paycheck
Sportico Staff,
Sportico.com,
30 June 2026
Your bonus paycheck should be more than enough to meet the $1 minimum opening deposit requirement.
—
Elizabeth Gravier,dan Avery,
CNBC,
30 June 2026
They were just stuck in a paycheck-to-paycheck rut like their neighbors and 29% of American families who qualify as the working poor.
—
Suzanne Van Atten,
AJC.com,
28 June 2026
The writer-director has been crafting stories of tough-talking guys ever since (with the occasional paycheck diversion into something like the live-action Aladdin).
—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for paycheck
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paycheck
Noun
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The Sacramento Kings traded guard Devin Carter and a second-round pick to the Atlanta Hawks for salary cap relief Monday.
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Book deals regularly eclipse Supreme Court justices' $300,000 government salaries.
Noun
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Over the past decade, home prices have risen much faster than wages.
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For this calculation, the institutional research department compared UC graduates’ earnings to out-of-pocket costs for their degrees and the opportunity costs of forgone wages of high school graduates of the same age.
Noun
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Anderson has since remarried and currently works as chief of staff for corporate development at payment technology company Celero Commerce.
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These businesses live or die by people answering phones, booking jobs, chasing payments and calming down upset customers.
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“Paycheck.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paycheck. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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