Back salary
noun
See back pay
Historical Examples
Better pay up your back salary instead of sitting there howling at me.
Around The Tea-Table T. De Witt Talmage
Byram came to look at you; he brought your back salary—all of it.
The Maids of Paradise Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Camm and a number of clergymen sued in county courts for back salary.
The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 Virginia State Dept. of Education
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