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pay-day
[pay- 1.]
a. The day on which payment is, or is to be, made; esp. a periodically recurring day (e.g. weekly or monthly) on which wages are, or are arranged to be, paid; on the Stock Exchange, the day on which a transfer of stock has to be paid for.
1529J. Whalley in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 162 The next pay day the whiche shalbe apon Satterdaye come senyght. a1634Chapman Rev. for Hon. Plays 1873 III. 289 Where in the Sutlers palace on pay-day We may the precious liquor quaff. 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 502 Our Day of Dissolution!—Name it right; 'Tis our great Pay-day. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xv. 122 He had..been known to be without a shilling for the last week before pay-day. 1897[see account day]. 1895[see name-day 3]. 1899Daily News 27 Feb. 6/4 On the Saturday following a Stock Exchange pay-day. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin viii. 147 ‘Our ship's company made a bit of a pay-day over it.’ ‘Pay-day! 'Ow d' yer mean?’.. ‘Bettin'!’ 1930R. Campbell Adamastor 33 We attend the Great Inspection, The Roll-call of the Resurrection, The pay-day of Eternity. 1944Dylan Thomas Lett. (1966) 262 I'll be up in London..always on payday Fridays. 1972Daily Tel. 4 July 32/6 She laughed and replied ‘They will have to do. It's the only pair I've got till pay day.’
b. Wages; the amount paid to a person on pay-day. Naut.
1915D. W. Bone Broken Stowage 239 We had fondly hoped to be strutting on Liverpool streets with our women folk, a twelve-months' ‘pay day’ in our pockets. 1922E. O'Neill Anna Christie (1923) ii. 60 'Tis no more drinking and roving about I'd be doing then, but giving my pay-day into her hand and staying at home with her as meek as a lamb. 1932J. W. Harris Days of Endeavour 20 The Bos'n, his fat pay-day having dwindled away..had sailed. |