"pay packet" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Cold comfort with the cash”, in Modern Railways, page 152",
          "text": "These were confusing times for all railwaymen, said Dr. Beeching in a message to B.R. staff, enclosed in their pay packets one week in July.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sealed envelope containing a person's wages."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "sealed envelope containing wages",
          "word": "palkkapussi"
        },
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "sealed envelope containing wages",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "lönekuvert"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The amount a person earns from employment."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, idiomatic) The amount a person earns from employment."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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          "_dis1": "17 83",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "amount a person earns",
          "word": "palkkapussi"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "pay packet"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "pay packets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Cold comfort with the cash”, in Modern Railways, page 152",
          "text": "These were confusing times for all railwaymen, said Dr. Beeching in a message to B.R. staff, enclosed in their pay packets one week in July.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sealed envelope containing a person's wages."
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
        "The amount a person earns from employment."
      ],
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        "(by extension, idiomatic) The amount a person earns from employment."
      ],
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sealed envelope containing wages",
      "word": "palkkapussi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sealed envelope containing wages",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lönekuvert"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "amount a person earns",
      "word": "palkkapussi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay packet"
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