payday has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) the day on which you receive pay for your work

Used in print

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

It was payday for Highlands , and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil_fields .

(Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry , with Gyp_Carmer a prominent figure , it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday .

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