pay rise

See also: payrise

English

Alternative forms

• payrise

Noun

pay rise (plural pay rises)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) An increase in salary or wages.
   • 2024 May 1, Mel Holley, “Network News: New action from ASLEF to hit Bank Holiday services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 14:

     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.

Synonyms

• (increase in pay): raise, pay raise (US)

Derived terms

• rise

Translations

increase in pay

• Catalan: augment de sou
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加薪 (zh) (jiāxīn), 漲工資／涨工资 (zhǎng gōngzī)

• Danish: lønforhøjelse (da) c
• Dutch: loonsverhoging (nl) f, salarisverhoging (nl) f
• Finnish: palkankorotus (fi), yleiskorotus (fi)
• French: augmentation de salaire (fr)
• German: Gehaltserhöhung (de) f, Lohnerhöhung (de) f
• Italian: aumento di stipendio
• Polish: podwyżka (pl) f
• Portuguese: aumento de salário
• Romanian: mărire de salariu f
• Russian: повыше́ние зарпла́ты n (povyšénije zarpláty)
• Spanish: aumento de sueldo

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