sick pay
Krankengeld, Lohnfortzahlung
Money paid to an employee on sick leaveMoney paid to an employee on sick leave.
» Tom has no sick pay, no paid vacation and no paid overtime.
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1 senses(UK, uncountable)Money paid to an employee on sick leave.
Krankengeld, Lohnfortzahlung
wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave
Examples
2 sentencesTom has no sick pay, no paid vacation and no paid overtime.
Virtually no employers provided their workers with sick days, paid vacation days or health benefits.
Translations
6 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 1
money paid to an employee during his or her sick leave:
Synonyms
4 synonymssickness allowancesickness benefitsick benefitincapacity benefit
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedsick leave
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.