A withheld payment for work which has already been completed, or which could have been completed had the employee not been prevented from doing so.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.

(intransitive and transitive) To pay in total a sum which is owed, especially when the sum has been owed for a period of time.

A payment. / A reward. / A bribe. / (colloquial) A resolution or justification of an event that has already occurred, especially in fiction. / (baseball) Short for payoff pitch.

(transitive) To pay a debt, to provide the entire amount of money owed to another. / (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

The day of the week/month etc. when wages are issued.

Alternative form of paycheck

(idiomatic, of a job) To provide enough income to sustain one's lifestyle.

(taxation) An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay.

present participle of pay attention