back pay

English

Alternative forms

• backpay

Etymology

From back +‎ pay.

Noun

back pay (countable and uncountable, plural back pays)

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.

Related terms

• back payment

Translations

withheld payment for work

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 補薪／补薪 (bǔxīn)

• Finnish: pidätetty palkka
• Russian: заде́ржка зарпла́ты f (zadéržka zarpláty)

Anagrams

• pay back, payback