pay as you earn

1. 1.

   the British system of withholding tax

   SynonymsPAYE

   Broaderwithholding tax

Questions about pay as you earn

What does pay as you earn mean?

pay as you earn means "the British system of withholding tax".

What is another word for pay as you earn?

Close synonyms include PAYE. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pay as you earn a common word?

pay as you earn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.