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piece rate
noun
- compensation based on a worker's quantitative output or production, usually an agreed sum per article of work turned out.
piece rate
noun
- a fixed rate paid according to the quantity produced
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Word History and Origins
Origin of piece rate1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
All of this work can be handled on a piece-rate basis, and most large concerns find this the most economical basis.
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A certain piece rate is paid until standard time is reached.
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To obviate the difficulties found in both the day-wage and piece-rate plans, the premium or bonus system was evolved.
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The slant of the wage line may be at any angle from horizontal, straight piece rate, to coalescence with day rate line.
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The first plan evolved, in the search for a plan that would remedy the inequalities of the day-wage plan, was the piece-rate plan.
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