Wage
Meanings and phrases
wage
- something that remunerates; pay; earnings; remuneration; salary
wage
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns); engage
n.
- a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
- regardless of the law, the men must have a living wage."
- Joe's wife Edna urges him to lead a strike and demand a living wage.
- Large segments of the black majority population were unemployed or did not earn a living wage.
n.
- the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law
- setting a minimum wage), fairness of dismissals (e.g.
- The new minimum wage will take effect from January 1.
- Schiff believes that there should be no minimum wage.
n.
- the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives; pay claim
n.
- the amount a salary is increased; raise; rise; wage hike; hike; salary increase
- Many scholars, however, welcomed and endorsed the minimum wage increase.
- Almskog had also received a NOK 600,000 wage increase shortly before leaving.
- If the minimum wage increase is the policy priority, shortening the operating hours will be a policy to compensate.
E.g.
- He was convinced by Krishna to wage war.
- Players can wage war on one another or form diplomatic relationships.
- 1088 on, he used his base at Smyrna to wage war against the Byzantines.
E.g.
- The effectiveness and feasibility of minimum wage increases are greatly debated topics.
- However, there are endless discussions over minimum wage laws and minimum wage increases.
- Inequalities in wage increases between ethnic German and ethnic Czech workers angered the Czech working class.
E.g.
- whole sale and retail trades, the weekly wage is lower by half of that in the public sector.
- In general, the average weekly wage in the private sector is, in many instances, higher than that of the public sector.
- However, the move did not take place because Crouch did not sign for QPR and Bentley's weekly wage of £50,000 was deemed too high.
E.g.
- 1088 on, he used his base at Smyrna to wage war against the Byzantines.
- In the novel, vodou is used both to protect the slaves and to wage war against the slave owners.
- Unlike other progressives, Croly did not want the government to wage war against large corporations.
E.g.
- In general, the average weekly wage in the private sector is, in many instances, higher than that of the public sector.
- In 2014 the median household income in Alberta was $100,000 with the average weekly wage at $1,163—23 per cent higher than the Canadian national average.
- Although the average weekly wage during the war was increased by between 8–12 per cent, it was not enough to keep up with inflation and as a result there was considerable discontent amongst workers, to the extent that industrial action followed.
E.g.
- A prime example of this is the wage gap.
- For 1940 his estimates of the gender wage gap range between 47% and 53%.
- By 1958 the situation seemed to improve and the wage gap declined to 39.5%.
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- The platform did not appeal to the more urban areas of the country where wage earners were working industrial jobs.
- It is based on the percentage increase in the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W)".
- Because AIDS affects mainly those who are sexually active, AIDS-related deaths are often people who are their family's primary wage earners.
E.g.
- But when wage rates rise above subsistence population increases.
- Chapter 19 discusses the question of whether wage rates contribute to unemployment.
- This has led to increase in wage rates and laborers from other adjoining villages viz.
E.g.
- When the minister of employment and labor receives the minimum wage bill, it shall notify it.
- The increase in consumption linked to growth of the wage bill also supported economic growth.