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noun
the lowest wage payable to employees in general or to designated employees as fixed by law or by union agreement.
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Origin of minimum wage First recorded in 1855–60
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Other definitions for minimum wage (2 of 2)
minimum-wage
[ min -uh -muh m-weyj ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈmɪn ə məmˈweɪdʒ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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.
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How to use minimum wage in a sentence The report is sure to animate the already heated debate over whether to include raising the federal minimum wage in legislation to help the sputtering economic recovery and aid vaccine distribution.
Day-care operators, whose facilities have been mostly open for months, said their employees tend to be older and earn minimum wage , and deserve priority.
It would also raise the minimum wage , increase the child tax credit, provide rental assistance and money for nutrition programs, while setting aside hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to state and local governments.
They say the costs are too high and the mandate too far-flung, such as an initial call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and provisions for climate change.
At $14 an hour, I was earning $1 more than at my other job and $4 and change above the city’s minimum wage .
He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage , missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
Remove the roast from the pan and let rest for a minimum of 15 minutes.
A gifted marketer, he sent samples of the hat to merchandisers all over the West, asking for a minimum order of a dozen.
Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
To work at Rizzoli you had to be fluent in several languages: three was the minimum when I began.
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
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 single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
They wage war as a tribe on account of wrongs done to a private individual.
The minimum wage law ought to form, in one fashion or another, a part of the code of every community.
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British Dictionary definitions for minimum wage
noun
the lowest wage that an employer is permitted to pay by law or union contract
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Cultural definitions for minimum wage
The lowest legal hourly wage .
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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