money wages
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Except in the case of minimum-wage workers there is considerable evidence that most employer costs associated with health insurance are passed along to workers in the form of lower money wages.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 23, 2015
Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2010
The gradual increase of welfare among wage-earners is greater even than the increase in money wages.
From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson
Under the circumstances then that I have supposed, the rate of profits would rise though money wages would fall.
From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David
If corn or cotton becomes dearer, the wages of every workman are really lessened; because he can buy less corn or cotton with his money wages.
From Political economy by Jevons, W. Stanley
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