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payslip

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of income earned and tax and insurance paid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pay advice, pay stub

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: record

History

Etymology

From pay + slip.

Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: llibramientu — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Bulgarian: фиш за заплата (fiš za zaplata) — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Catalan: nòmina — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Czech: výplatní páska — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Dutch: loonstrookje — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Finnish: palkkalaskelma — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Finnish: palkkanauha — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Finnish: tilinauha — document of employee's wage or salary
  • French: bulletin de paie — document of employee's wage or salary
  • French: bulletin de salaire — document of employee's wage or salary
  • French: fiche de paie — document of employee's wage or salary
  • German: Entgeltabrechnung — document of employee's wage or salary
  • German: Gehaltsabrechnung — document of employee's wage or salary
  • German: Gehaltszettel — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Italian: busta paga — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Italian: cedolino — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Italian: folio paga — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Malay: penyata gaji — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Malay: slip gaji — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Polish: pasek wynagrodzenia — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Portuguese: holerite — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Portuguese: contracheque — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Romanian: fluturaş — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Russian: расчётный лист (rasčótnyj list) — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Spanish: nómina — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Swedish: lönespecifikation — document of employee's wage or salary
  • Swedish: lönespec — document of employee's wage or salary