ECONOMICS→wage restraint(Definition ofpay restraintfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofpay restraint
pay restraintThis had been devised to encourage trade union support forpayrestraint, and observed a long-held radical distinction between producers and non-producers.From theCambridge English CorpusIfpayrestraintleads to increases in profits and investments, a word of gratitude is scant reward for the staff who have exercised such restraint.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishSuch a substantial increase is unacceptable - especially since we hear it stressed on every side how necessarypayrestraintis in order to maintain employment.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishThe third—payrestraint—is a condition of budgetary balance in any event.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0This is a 1 per cent. increase above inflation once measures on public sectorpayrestrainthave been taken into account.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Payrestraintwill help us to improve services to patients.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The need forpayrestraintis no less real in the public sector.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I can also understand people who argue thatpayrestraintin the public sector should be copied by more people in the private sector.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0If a much lower level of unemployment is to be achieved and maintained, there must bepayrestraint.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The second question, if the pay review body is right, is whether we are right to accept voluntarypayrestraintand override the recommendations.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/pay-restraint##
