benefit
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extra money or other advantages that you get in addition to your salary from your employer as part of your job
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extra money or other advantages that you get in addition to your salary from your employer as part of your job
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something that an employee receives from the company they work for, other than their usual pay, for example a car or health insurance
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an extra amount of money that you earn in your job every time you sell a product or get a new customer
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extra money that you get in addition to your normal pay for doing something dangerous
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double the amount that you normally earn, paid when you work on days or at times when most people do not work
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a system that allows you to get back from your employer any of your own money that you have spent while working
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a system of offering employees a range of different benefits, such as company cars or health insurance, in addition to their salary and allowing them to choose which ones they want
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an increase in pay or another benefit that a group of workers gets because a similar group has got it
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ways of trying to stop a senior manager in a company from leaving their job, by offering a lot of money if they stay and making them lose money if they leave
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a large amount of money given to a senior manager in a company when they leave their job
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a large amount of money given to someone when they leave their job, for example in the armed forces
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an extra amount paid to a worker who has a special skill or accepts additional responsibility
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extra money that you are paid for working on days or at times when you would not normally work
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money that someone such as an actor, writer, or musician earns each time their work is broadcast
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a payment made to someone such as a lawyer so that they will be available to do work for you when you want them
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a payment that someone such as a writer or musician gets each time their work is sold or performed
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money that you are given by an employer or the government when you are ill and cannot work
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an extra amount of pay given to someone because they work in an expensive area such as a big city
money that you receive for a period when you are not working, for example because you are on holiday, having a baby, or ill
one and a half times the usual money that you earn
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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