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11wage — wage1 [ weıdʒ ] noun count ** wage or wages an amount of money that you earn for working, usually according to how many hours or days you work each week or month: daily/hourly/weekly wage They re protesting about low wages. a. only before noun… …
12work — /werrk/, n., adj., v., worked or (Archaic except for 35, 37, 40) wrought; working. n. 1. exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. 2. something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking: The… …
13Work — /werrk/, n. Henry Clay, 1832 84, U.S. songwriter. * * * I In economics and sociology, the activities and labour necessary for the survival of society. As early as 40,000 BC, hunters worked in groups to track and kill animals, while younger or… …
14wage-earning — adjective 1. working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries working class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor • Syn: ↑working class • Similar to: ↑blue collar 2. of those who work for wages especially manual… …
15Minimum wage — A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labour. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in a great many… …
16Maximum wage — A maximum wage, also often called a wage ceiling, is a legal limit on how much income an individual can earn.[1] This is a related economic concept that is complementary to the minimum wage used currently by some states to enforce minimum… …
17Living wage — is a term used to describe the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. In developed countries such as the United Kingdom or Switzerland, this standard generally means that a person working forty… …
18Minimum wage history — The history of minimum wage is about the attempts and measures governments have made to introduce a standard amount of periodic pay below which employers could not let their workers fall.In 1824 in Victoria, Australia, an amendment to the… …
19Refusal of work — is behavior which refuses to adapt to regular employment.[1] As actual behavior, with or without a political or philosophical program, it has been practiced by various subcultures and individuals. Radical political positions have openly advocated …
20Minimum wage law — is the body of law which prohibits employers from hiring employees or workers for less than a given hourly, daily or monthly minimum wage. More than 90% of all countries have some kind of minimum wage legislation.[1] Until recently, minimum wage… …
