| 单词 | statement wages |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatement wages c. British. Business. A document setting out the amount to be paid to workers, esp. for piecework. Frequently attributive, as statement price, statement wages. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > paying (money) for labour or service > [noun] > list or book of payments payroll1740 acquittance-roll1799 wage-book1865 statement1889 wage-sheet1903 1819 Morning Chron. 22 July The workmen have determined to cease working until they obtain the statement of prices agreed on by the hosiers... The different parishes have also come to the determination to give them their assistance until they obtain the ‘Statement’ prices. 1889 D. F. Schloss in Charity Org. Rev. Jan. 7 These workmen receive a rate of wages fixed by the Union and embodied in a ‘statement’. 1897 Daily News 12 Apr. 2/5 In several cases manufacturers have offered..an increase of ten per cent. above statement wages. 1900 C. Russell & H. S. Lewis Jew in London 79 [In the boot and shoe trade] the better class of work is still done by Englishmen under ‘statement’ prices. 1919 J. L. Hammond & B. Hammond Skilled Labourer viii. 252 The other employers kept to the statement for six or eight months, and then wages fell as low as before. 1983 J. Buckman Immigrants Class Struggle v. 143 The Trades Council set 24 April 1900 as the date by which the alien union should be in receipt of Statement wages if recognition were to become a fact. < as lemmas |
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