Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 29 compound words that contain wage. The most common are listed below. Open wage in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 60
- minimum wageThe lowest rate at which an employer must legally pay an employee, usually expressed as pay per hour.
- living wageThe minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
- hourly wageThe amount that an employee is paid per hour of work.
- Wage rate
- Wage War
- wage slaveSomeone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- wage theftThe illegal withholding of wages or denial of benefits that are rightfully owed to an employee.
- wage earnerSomeone who works for wages, especially if that wage supports a household.
- wage laborLabor that is sustained by giving the laborer a wage.
- wage earnersplural of wage earner: Someone who works for wages, especially if that wage supports a household.
- maximum wageA legal limit on how much a person can earn; an institutional limit on how much a job role can earn (as for example military ranks or occupational specialties).
- starvation wageA wage so low that it can barely support a person.
- slave to the wageSynonym of wage slave: Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- family wageA wage that is sufficient to raise or support a family.
- wage labourCommonwealth standard spelling of wage labor.
- wage shareThe part of national income, or the income of a particular economic sector, allocated to wages (labor).
- wage scaleA system of remuneration for workers which specifies levels of payment based on set criteria, such as the skill levels of the various jobs or the number of years of experience possessed by workers.
- wage billThe total amount of money spent by an organization on wages.
- wage slavesplural of wage slave: Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- wage slaveryAny form of employment with very low income, or a dependence on wages for survival.
- wage packetAn envelope or similar package in which a salary is given to a worker
- wage-worthyWorthy of receiving wages; deserving (of) pay.
- wage-fund doctrineThe theory that there is at any given time in a country a determinate amount of capital available for the payment of labour, therefore the average wage depends on the proportion of this fund to the number of persons who have to share in it.
- wage laborerSomebody who works for a wage.
- wage labourerCommonwealth standard spelling of wage laborer.
Compound words 29
- wageableCapable of being waged or fought.
- wagecuckA person who works a mindless, low-paying job.
- wagelingOne who is hired for wages, especially one motivated solely by money; a hireling.
- wagedomThe practice of hiring workers for wages.
- wagerySynonym of wage slavery: Any form of employment with very low income, or a dependence on wages for survival.
- nonwageNot of or pertaining to a wage.
- underwageAn unsufficient wage.
- WagemanAn Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Northern Territory in Australia
- wagetakerA firm that has no choice over its wages and must accept those of the general market.
- wageworkWork done to earn a wage.