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What does "pad" mean if it's used as a verb?

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Rebecca

In this context, you can think of "pad" as related to the word "padding" - material used to cushion or stuff something. Thus, we can understand the informal expression "pad (one's) wallet" to mean to expand or increase one's wealth in a deceiving, misleading, or illegal manner. Ex: The new CEO doesn't care about the employees. He just wants to pad his own wallet. Ex: The CEO is known to use many unethical methods to pad his own wallet.

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