back pay
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editback pay (countable and uncountable, plural back pays)
- 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.
- Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.
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editwithheld payment for work