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wage slave

noun

  1. a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.


wage slave

noun

  1. ironic.
    a person dependent on a wage or salary


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Other Words From

  • wage slavery noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wage slave1

First recorded in 1885–90

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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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