What is "pay packet"

Usage examples of "pay packet".

He spent half his pay packet and his Sundays in Carnaby Street and the other half on week nights chasing girls.

I take ten shillings out of my pay packet, go to the florist on the corner and buy a big bunch of red roses and have them wrapped up in cellophane, with a ribbon, the works.

I made up Brett's pay packet with cash from my safe as promised and typed the information into the computer, so that along in the office Rose could incorporate it into the P45.

If I said goodbye to the department I had no qualifications that would get me a comparable pay packet elsewhere.

Lesurier started work down on the bench on Wednesday evening and found to his surprise and pleasure that the shop steward had insisted that he should be paid, which put another twenty-seven shillings in his pay packet at the week's end.

Lubji was not surprised to find, when he opened his pay packet on Friday, that it contained another small rise.

And you know you wouldn't like me to have to let myself be messed about by some other fellow as part of what it takes to get a decent pay packet.

He doesn't get paid for that, so you have to divide his weekly pay packet by two.

This was a gentle reminder of what Isazi expected in his next pay packet.

A pay packet for a nonexistent stable lad, for a little extra regular cash.

McArdle was only miserable when confronted, as now, with the consequences of having spent his pay packet on beer, and the onset of sobriety.

I'd bring home a pay packet each Tenshiftday to replenish our vanishing funds.

When he sobers up he can come to the office and collect his pay packet Sean sat up.

And then they started taking eight and tenpence from her pay packet each week because she left an hour early.

In my experience there has to be a very good reason for a workman to ignore his pay packet.