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PAY RATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pay rate mean?
• PAY RATE (noun)
The noun PAY RATE has 1 sense:
1. amount of money received per unit time
Familiarity information: PAY RATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Amount of money received per unit time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
pay rate; rate of pay
Context example:
women's pay rate is lower than men's
Hypernyms ("pay rate" is a kind of...):
charge per unit; rate (amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pay rate"):
time and a half (a rate of pay that is 1.5 times the regular rate; for overtime work)
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