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per diem

1 noun
     
Related topics: Wages
per di‧em1 [countable] American English
1BEW an amount of money that an employer pays a worker for each day that is worked
2 an amount of money that a worker is allowed to spend when doing his or her job, for example on a business trip:
a per diem allowance
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