English Explanatory Dictionary

back pay

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.
  2. Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.

Word forms

back pay back pays backpay

Etymology

From back + pay.

Related words

back payment
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