0 the money that you earn, especially when it is given to you in notes and coins in an envelope:
1 → pay packet
Like some men never let their wives see their wage packet.
I welcome the fact that a number of benefits will be delivered through the wage packet.
A lone parent in paid employment will receive the payment through the wage packet.
The important thing is not the size of the wage packet but what the wage packet will buy.
The studies show that they still see it only as an indication to their wage packet and as another element in their wages.
All he is interested in is his wage packet and what it will buy.
I should like, too, to see a reduction in the working hours without such a reduction affecting the wage packet.
We are saying that lone parents in work will receive the benefit through their wage packet.