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noun

base pay.

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How to use basic wage in a sentence

While it’s true that Ford’s promise of a basic wage and access to profit-sharing drew workers to the company, these benefits were contingent on timesaving behaviors, which were famously detrimental to workers.
Employers’ new tools to surveil and monitor workers are historically rooted|Saima Akhtar|May 6, 2021|Washington Post
We were barely into the appetizer when he asked a fairly basic question—where did my family live?
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The training, at least as described by the U.S. military, is incredibly basic.
Pentagon Insider on New Plan to Fight ISIS: ‘Of Course It’s Not Enough’|Nancy A. Youssef|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.
Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society|Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

And yet—as any private who went through basic can tell you—good weapons training means not shooting wildly 14 times.
A Veteran’s View: NYC Cold War Between Cops and City Hall|Matt Gallagher|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Cuban Hip-Hop Was Born in Alamar|Daniel Levin|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Nuclei and certain other structures in the blood are stained by the basic dyes, and are hence called basophilic.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
They wage war as a tribe on account of wrongs done to a private individual.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various

British Dictionary definitions for basic wage

basic wage

noun

a person's wage excluding overtime, bonuses, etc

Australian the statutory minimum wage for any worker

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