| 单词 | day wage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasday wage day wage n. (frequently in plural) a wage paid by the day; the amount of money earned for one day's work; (also attributive) designating a person working for such a wage. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > of manual workers > paid by day day wage1581 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 3v All things are so deere that by their day wages, they are not able to lyue. 1652 G. Winstanley Law of Freedom in Platform iv. 67 Now my health and estate is decayed, and I grow in age, I must either beg or work for day wages. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 125 The daily or weekly earnings of journeymen..are, in most places, very little more than the day wages of common labourers. View more context for this quotation 1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 120 The day-wage-men for the whole parish reside in the village. 1834 Factories Inq. Comm.: Suppl. Rep. Employm. Children in Factories ii. D.1.181 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 167) XX. 1 We (as yet) pay the day-wage hands the same wages for sixty-nine hours as we did for seventy-two hours. 1961 M. Cole Story of Fabian Socialism iv. 31 The type of Trade Union which wished to pay its general secretary no more than the day-wage of the man at the bench. 1986 Mod. Asian Stud. 20 159 A proper class of day-wage-workers has not been established everywhere. 2007 G. Clark Farewell to Alms iii. 44 The day wage in England in 1800 would purchase 3.2 kilograms of wheat flour, while the day wage in Malawi would purchase only 2.1 kilograms of inferior maize flour. < as lemmas |
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