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Discover LudwigThe phrase "advance of pay" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in financial or employment contexts to refer to a payment made before it is due or before work is completed.
Example: "The company offered an advance of pay to help employees manage their expenses during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "prepayment" or "salary advance".
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Their families often go hungry and they themselves are often up to their ears in debt, for advances of pay, to the middlemen.
"In my judgment," Mr. Gonzales wrote, "this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions" like affording prisoners amenities including athletic uniforms, advances of pay and scientific instruments.
600 (34 U.S.C. 875a), authorizes advances of pay to personnel upon permanent changes of station or where such personnel are on distant duty stations where disbursements of pay and allowances cannot be regularly made, and § 303(a) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949 (37 U.S.C. 253) authorizes advance payments of travel and transportation allowances.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are in one of those college-style living arrangements in which you and a handful of roommates occupy an apartment, and each of you has agreed in advance to pay a portion of the rent that, in total, keeps you in the clear with your landlord.
"All those things would be really important to us and would be fantastic if the new owners could see that, to benefit the football club and the community overall". With the FA having provided Yeovil with some of 2019-20's divisional grant money in advance to pay the remainder of this season's wage bill, will that leave Yeovil short of cash again next term?
This latest evidence of the persistent and damaging gender earnings gap comes in advance of Equal Pay Day on April 12, the day that marks how far into the "new year" that women would have to work in order to match what their male counterparts made in the prior year.
Specifically, the use of advances to pay for visitor airfare was removed, as this presents a risk to the university and is not currently practiced.
Other publishers said a pre-emptive advance for Mr. Gerstner's book was likely to be about $4 million, less than the near-record advance of $7.1 million paid two years ago to John F. Welch Jr., former chairman of General Electric.
In creating the Tax Court (originally known as the Board of Tax Appeals, Congresss provided a forum in which taxpayers could obtain an 'independent review of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue's determination of additional income * * * taxes by the Board in advance of their paying the tax found by the Commissioner to be due.' Old Colony Trust Co. v. Commissioner, 279 U.S. 716, 721, 49 S.Ct.
Yet another challenge: dealing with pushback from the established design community, which has started a campaign called NoSpec, urging designers not to work in advance of getting paid.
But the real moneymakers came for McGregor over the last 12 months, as he renegotiated his contract in advance of three pay-per-views headliners.
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