Usually means: Unpaid wages owed to employee.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. back pay: Merriam-Webster
  2. back pay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back pay: Collins English Dictionary
  4. back-pay: Wordnik
  5. back pay: Dictionary.com
  6. Back Pay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. back pay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. back pay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  9. back pay: Merriam-Webster
  10. back pay: Wiktionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (back pay)

noun:  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.
noun:  Pay received by an employee from an increase awarded retrospectively, and backdated.

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