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minimum wage
1noun
- the lowest wage payable to employees in general or to designated employees as fixed by law or by union agreement.
minimum-wage
2[ min-uh-muhm-weyj ]
adjective
- of or relating to a minimum wage:
minimum-wage demands.
- paid or earning a minimum wage:
a minimum-wage worker.
- paying a minimum wage:
a minimum-wage job.
minimum wage
noun
- the lowest wage that an employer is permitted to pay by law or union contract
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minimum wage1
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Example Sentences
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
As a result, the inexperienced can find themselves earning well below minimum wage, or abused by underhanded employers.
Both give estimates of how many U.S. workers would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage.
Only about 3.3 million Americans (pdf) earn the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour or less.
Three days later, BrewDog's operation manager offered him a minimum-wage assistant brewer position.
The minimum wage law ought to form, in one fashion or another, a part of the code of every community.
This can be done, as with the minimum wage, partly by positive legislation and partly collective action.
A penny a day does not seem such an insufficient minimum wage to a traveler, as it does to a stay-at-home person.
There is much talk now of minimum wage legislation to guarantee laborers a certain standard.
Likewise labor at a minimum wage, congress and the lords of labor permitting.
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