Showing results for Bedaux system. Search instead for guidance+system.

Bedaux system

American

[buh-doh] / bəˈdoʊ /

noun

a system of payment for work on the basis of the number of points of work done in a given amount of time, each point representing one minute of work on a given job at a normal rate of speed.

Etymology

Origin of Bedaux system

After Charles Eugène Bedaux (1887–1944), American industrialist

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production.

From Time Magazine Archive

It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement."

From Time Magazine Archive

Apart from its appeasement of labor, the Bedaux system is basically the same.

From Time Magazine Archive

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023