pay cut

1. 1.

   the act of reducing a salary

   Synonymssalary cut

   Broadercut

Questions about pay cut

What does pay cut mean?

pay cut means "the act of reducing a salary".

What is another word for pay cut?

Close synonyms include salary cut. 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 cut a common word?

pay cut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.