See backpay on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back-",
"3": "pay"
},
"expansion": "back- + pay",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From back- + pay.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "backpays",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "backpay (countable and uncountable, plural backpays)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "back pay"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with back-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
148,
155
]
],
"ref": "2023 February 16, Jon Porter, “Tesla fired dozens of Gigafactory workers after Tuesday’s union announcement: NLRB complaint”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:",
"text": "Retaliation against organizing unions is illegal under US federal law, and complaints with the NLRB can lead to fired workers being reinstated with backpay, Bloomberg notes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
167,
174
],
[
194,
201
]
],
"ref": "2023 March 22, Mel Holley, “Network News: RMT to ballot Network Rail members on improved offer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:",
"text": "It says the offer amounts to an increase of 14.4% for the lowest-paid grades to 9.2% for the highest paid. There is an additional 1.1% on basic earnings and increased backpay. […] The increased backpay will be implemented and paid as a lump sum […].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of back pay."
],
"id": "en-backpay-en-noun--bhyW8YF",
"links": [
[
"back pay",
"back pay#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "backpay"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "back-",
"3": "pay"
},
"expansion": "back- + pay",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From back- + pay.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "backpays",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "backpay (countable and uncountable, plural backpays)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "back pay"
}
],
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with back-",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
148,
155
]
],
"ref": "2023 February 16, Jon Porter, “Tesla fired dozens of Gigafactory workers after Tuesday’s union announcement: NLRB complaint”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2023:",
"text": "Retaliation against organizing unions is illegal under US federal law, and complaints with the NLRB can lead to fired workers being reinstated with backpay, Bloomberg notes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
167,
174
],
[
194,
201
]
],
"ref": "2023 March 22, Mel Holley, “Network News: RMT to ballot Network Rail members on improved offer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:",
"text": "It says the offer amounts to an increase of 14.4% for the lowest-paid grades to 9.2% for the highest paid. There is an additional 1.1% on basic earnings and increased backpay. […] The increased backpay will be implemented and paid as a lump sum […].",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of back pay."
],
"links": [
[
"back pay",
"back pay#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "backpay"
}
Download raw JSONL data for backpay meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.