"beyond one's pay grade" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

Audio: en-au-beyond one's pay grade.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: Possibly from the correspondence of pay grade to level of authority in U.S. civil service and in the U.S. armed forces. Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=beyond one's pay grade}} beyond one's pay grade, {{en-prep phrase|beyond one's pay grade}} beyond one's pay grade
  1. (idiomatic) Beyond one's level of authority. Tags: idiomatic Translations (beyond the speaker's authority): over min lønramme (Danish)
    Sense id: en-beyond_one's_pay_grade-en-prep_phrase-Y4w0UTHZ Disambiguation of "beyond the speaker's authority": 69 31
  2. (idiomatic) Beyond one's capability. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-beyond_one's_pay_grade-en-prep_phrase-p10UXUJE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: above one's pay grade

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