Originally Posted by Excargodog

Want more?? There are several hundred other dictionaries that say the same. Granted, it’s more common in English English than American English but there is nothing erroneous about the usage.

Now putting all that grammar and etymology stuff behind us, do you or do you not approve of holding first year pay down as a tactic to decrease the number and quality of applicants as a technique to extort more money from the company for the senior guys?

Seems pretty d@mn chicken$hit to me personally, but YMMV I suppose.