| 单词 | living wage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliving wage living wage n. a wage on which it is possible to meet basic needs. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > according to amount pittance1611 half-pay1664 long shilling1764 overpay1765 living wage1817 subsistence wage1831 existence wage1893 social wage1925 1817 Times 14 Jan. I know not how sufficiently to admire your repeated recommendations to employ the poor..; this is all they wish for, or require, at bare living wages, during these distressing times. 1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxviii. 450 The wonder to me is, not that industries conducted as these are do not pay you living wages, but that they are able to pay you any wages at all. 1967 Listener 23 Feb. 248/1 Some of them already have to work up to fifty-six hours a week to make up their weekly pay to a living wage of £20. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Nov. The living wage outside London is now £7.85. < as lemmas |
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