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  • noun Alternative spelling of pay grade.

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  • noun rank in a military organization

Etymologies

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pay +‎ grade

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Examples

  • Doing due diligence sometimes can cause delays at the outset, but having a high % of certainty that your staff at a certain paygrade aren't going off the reservation and fouling things up can be very beneficial and cost efficient in the long run.

    Clinton again rips into vetting process 2009

  • All French wines and champagne that were far above my "paygrade"!

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • "paygrade" and now, we have to deal with incompetence and a congress that cant seem to get a handle on a damned thing without taxing the holy crap out of everything and anything.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • (The CA ARNG, ANG, CA SMR and Naval Militia) for 8 years, leaving in the paygrade of lieutenant colonel on State Active Duty.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • Sorry. †“No problem, no problem at all, HN (Hospitalman, E-3 paygrade) Marisol. â€

    Gon Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Micromanagers B-D who are at a lower paygrade than A automatically agree with the boss.

    Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Knock the Post Office 2009

  • I'm pissed off that no one has the balls to remove the respirator, angry that she trusted her golden child with this clearly above his paygrade decision, and sad that she wasn't a nicer person when it counted so that I could feel some cathartic grief.

    a series of tubes 2009

  • But, if the show does return, Danny's new paygrade could definitely complicate things.

    Mega Buzz: A Five-0 Death, Bad Botox on Modern Family and a Smallville Quest 2011

  • I'm pissed off that no one has the balls to remove the respirator, angry that she trusted her golden child with this clearly above his paygrade decision, and sad that she wasn't a nicer person when it counted so that I could feel some cathartic grief.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • He achieved the rank of Lieutenant, paygrade 0-3, as a NFO.

    Robert Davenport 2010

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