| 单词 | premium bonus system |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspremium bonus system premium bonus system n. now chiefly historical a system by which a bonus is paid in addition to wages in proportion to the amount or value of work done. ΚΠ 1902 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 3/3 The premium bonus system, as provisionally agreed to, seems to Mr. Webb to be an admirable expedient. 1947 Econ. Hist. Rev. 17 44 This particular ‘evil’ was of course replaced by others in the general spread of payment by results at the close of the century, for example, by the practice of placing a worker ‘in debt’ if he failed to make his time-rate of wages on a job, and, in the opinion of some, by the Premium Bonus System. 1995 L. L. Downs Manufacturing Inequality 116 Those [women] employed on the premium bonus system saw their weekly earnings rise by at least 10s. < as lemmas |
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