pay-day, noun

Origin:: EnglishShow more Special sense of general English pay-day the day on which wages are paid.

Especially in the townships: the day on which pensioners collect old-age-, disability-, maintenance-, and other grants.

1977 World 28 Sept. 9For the old and disabled, it was another ‘pay-day’, which meant getting up early to stand in the queue.

1983 Informant, Grahamstown (now Makhanda, Eastern Cape)Pay day tomorrow for Welfare.

the day on which pensioners collect old-age-, disability-, maintenance-, and other grants.

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