0 the money that you earn, especially when it is given to you in notes and coins in an envelope: --
1 → pay packet --
After all, people have only one wage packet per week, in whatever way or on whichever day they spend it.
These are the three things that really matter, and it is the cost of living that eats at the wage packet he takes home.
We should like to raise our standard of living, and that can follow only if we can increase our wage packet.
How much they take home in the wage packet.
I understand that they have established in their minds the need for employees to see the tax credit arrive with their wage packet.
Most two-parent working families rely on one partner's wage packet and accept responsibility for deciding how it is to be used.
Being paid through the wage packet inevitably requires the employer to intrude into the employee's private affairs which causes people, quite rightly, to be concerned.
We are saying that lone parents in work will receive the benefit through their wage packet.
