freeze wages

freeze someone's wages

Fig. to hold someone's pay at its current level. The company froze everyone's wages as soon as the economy went sour.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ilona	EE-lo-naw (Hungarian), ee-LO-nah (German), EE-lo-nah (Finnish)	Hungarian, German, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech
Ortzi	-	Basque
Mukesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali
ÁSmundr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Helle (1)	HEL-le	Danish
Robbie	['rɔbi]