sick pay

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   wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave

   Broaderwage

Questions about sick pay

What does sick pay mean?

sick pay means "wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave".

Is sick pay a common word?

sick pay 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.