Pauschale

== German == === Etymology === Austrian officialese from Southern German Pausch, Bausch (“wad”), which occurs primarily in the phrase in Bausch und Bogen (“taken as a whole, completely”). Originally neuter, with a change of gender occurring in the 20th century, but the original gender is still retained in officialese language. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /paʊ̯ˈʃaːlə/ (Germany) IPA(key): /paʊ̯ˈʃaːlɛ/, [paɔ̯-] (Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland) Hyphenation: Pau‧scha‧le === Noun === Pauschale f or (Austria) n (mixed or strong, genitive Pauschale or Pauschales, plural Pauschalen or (uncommon) Pauschale or Pauschalien) (finance) lump sum (Austria) flat rate ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “Pauschale” in Duden online “Pauschale”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Pauschale”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Pauschale”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 533