executive pay

collocation in English

meaningsofexecutiveandpay

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executive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv/us
/ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɪv/
relating to making decisions and managing businesses, or suitable for people with important jobs ...
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pay
noun[U]
uk
/peɪ/us
/peɪ/
the money you receive for doing ...
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(Definition ofexecutiveandpayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Last week saw our proposals on hedge funds and private equity, as well as onexecutivepay.
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Over the past few years we have seenexecutivepaysubstantially outstrip the pay of the rest of the work force.
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To subject directors'executivepayincreases to a resolution of the company annual general meeting would be cumbersome and ineffective.
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I also wanted to discuss the obscene levels ofexecutivepayand the measures needed to control them.
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We will come with an initiative onexecutivepay, based on a review of our 2004 recommendation.
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Apart from their excess profits,executivepaypackages rose three times faster than average earnings last year.
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Other reports onexecutivepaywere produced for a number of the now privatised electricity companies and are a matter for those companies.
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One of the problems that we are already encountering is that the various shareholders' meetings onexecutivepayare dominated by institutional shareholders.
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If its policy onexecutivepaywas a problem, that should also have been put on the table for discussion.
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Allexecutivepaywith a bonus component should also have a loss component.
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One of the other two issues is that ofexecutivepay.
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The issues of performance andexecutivepaycome back to shareholders and to shareholder responsibility.
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Already this morning, we had the divergence of opinions onexecutivepay.
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The issue ofexecutivepayand fair remuneration is at the heart of the debate.
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Indeed, as everyone knows, the gap betweenexecutivepayand lower pay is as wide as it has ever been.
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I recognise the concerns that some shareholders have aboutexecutivepay.
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It may well be that, in the short term, the immediate effect of publishing voting records will be to focus attention on questions ofexecutivepay, over-pay and perks.
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Takeover bidders and the stock market seem to think that this formula leaves a lot of scope for excessively high profits and excessively highexecutivepayand perks.
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On each occasion, the problem is not thatexecutivepaycannot be justified; it is that people are unwilling to be transparent about their policies onexecutivepay.
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New clause 2 seeks to impose price penalties on companies where there is excessiveexecutivepay.
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