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wage slave
noun
- a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.
wage slave
noun
- ironic.a person dependent on a wage or salary
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- wage slavery noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wage slave1
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Example Sentences
The silk-socked wage slave, toiling eight hours for six dollars, is not the genuine old New Orleans molasses slave.
Slave and slave-owner, serf and baron, wage-slave and capitalist—so the classes have struggled.
She sat in another chair, very straight in her lavender dress, and joined with the flapper in her survey of the wage-slave.
Nature does not intend for one man to have capital and another to be a wage-slave.
The wage-slave, when he is out of work, must now starve or go into the workhouse and be made miserable, or commit suicide.
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