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