nominal wages
plural noun Economics.
wages measured in terms of money and not by their ability to command goods and services.
Words nearby nominal wages
nominal damages, nominal par, nominal scale, nominal sentence, nominal value, nominal wages, nominalism, nominalize, nominally, nominate, nomination
Compare real wages.
Origin of nominal wages
First recorded in 1895–1900
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