wage worker
21worker — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good, hard, willing ▪ productive ▪ fast, quick ▪ methodical, steady …
22Wage curve — The wage curve is the term used to describe the negative relationship between the levels of unemployment and wages that arises when these variables are expressed in local terms. According to David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald (1994, p. 5), the… …
23wage rate — noun : the amount of base wage paid to a worker per unit of time (as per hour or day) or per unit of output if on piecework * * * wage rate, the rate of pay assigned to a worker for a certain job or time spent in working; wage scale: »A number of …
24Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act — The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) is a United States labor law which protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide sixty (60) calendar day… …
25wage earner — Synonyms and related words: blue collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free lancer, full time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer,… …
26worker — Synonyms and related words: actor, agent, ant, architect, army ant, artisan, assistant, author, bee, black ant, blue collar worker, brainworker, brassworker, breadwinner, bumblebee, carpenter ant, casual, casual laborer, clothworker, common… …
27Worker's compensation Germany — BackgroundThe German worker s compensation law of 6 July 1884 has been the first of its kind in the world. The Sickness Insurance law paid indemnity to all private wage earners and apprentices, including those who work in the agricultural and… …
28wage slave — noun : one whose toil for wages is tantamount to slavery * * * wage slavery. a person who works for a wage, esp. with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor. [1885 90] * * * wage slave noun A person dependent on a… …
29worker — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. laborer, workman; artisan, craftsman; operator, doer, performer; journeyman, yeoman; Trojan; drudge; mechanic; toiler, moiler. See exertion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. operator, mechanic, machinist,… …
30wage — n. & v. n. 1 (in sing. or pl.) a fixed regular payment, usu. daily or weekly, made by an employer to an employee, esp. to a manual or unskilled worker (cf. SALARY). 2 (in sing. or pl.) requital (the wages of sin is death). 3 (in pl.) Econ. the… …
