measured daywork

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noun

a system of wage payment, usually determined by work-study techniques, whereby the wage of an employee is fixed on the understanding that a specific level of work performance will be maintained

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One of the honor guard approached with slow, measured steps and presented the flag to a uniformed captain.
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However, several probes—most recently the Curiosity rover—have measured methane in the Martian atmosphere.
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This is important in the concentration process, which takes place by means of an extraordinarily measured period of boiling.
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Like so many of the poor, he measured his future by hours and days.
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The output of CO2 by industrialization and other human activities—also rising, also measured.
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For we have, alas, no means of finding out what the quantity of labor is and how it can be measured.
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That of the female just killed measured four feet five inches in length and four feet in breadth.
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"I cannot object, gentlemen," said the Frenchman, as he carefully measured them and weighed them in either hand.
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He had received no invitation to go down to The Warren, but his father the Justice had written him in no measured terms.
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Then, measured by inhabitants, it was the fifth town in Ireland; now it is the eighth.
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