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
'Ari'el	-	Biblical Hebrew
CiarÁN	KEER-awn, KEE-ar-awn	Irish
Bjarne	BYAHR-ne (Danish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Adkin	['ædkin]
Jo	[dʒəu]
Butrus	-	Arabic, Coptic