inflated salary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinflatedandsalary
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inflated
adjective
uk/ɪnˈfleɪ.tɪd/us/ɪnˈfleɪ.t̬ɪd/
Inflated prices, costs, numbers, etc. are higher than they should be, or higher than people think ...
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salary
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈsæl.ər.i/us/ˈsæl.ɚ.i/
a fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account ...
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(Definition ofinflatedandsalaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I am not saying, therefore, that we should have a substantiallyinflatedsalary.
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Day after day we see advertisements for local authority staff at inflated salaries.
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The appointment of those officers at inflated salaries has aroused a great deal of anxiety.
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Considerable publicity has been given to the alleged inflated salaries being paid in nationalised industries.
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Commercially, it is unlikely that existing controlling shareholders will pay inflated salaries to employees to avoid corporation tax simply to attract a little more.
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I wonder whether that will include regulation of the inflated salaries that the chairmen of the privatised companies are now paying themselves.
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Inflated salaries have been paid to management"— it will be noted that the inflated salaries did not go to staff— "by some new councils.
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Now we have the new general managers at inflated salaries on a three-year contract which, by the way, ensures that they will toe the government line, or else.
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Perhaps some of those on vastly inflated salaries from newly-privatised utilities will consider putting some of their money into schemes that will help create small businesses.
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There will be no inflated salaries.
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There were grossly inflated salaries.
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Other city officials receiving inflated salaries.
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