starvation wages

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plural noun

wages below the level necessary for subsistence.

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Origin of starvation wages

First recorded in 1885–90

For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
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Girls perform better in school (though this does not, seemingly, result in higher wages).
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Around the world, they are held in high esteem, paid professional wages, and often granted tenure in their jobs.
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First, the starvation: The state of New York is being sued again for funding public schools below constitutional levels.
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On Friday, the stock market hit new highs—even as wages were stagnating.
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All possibility of a general increase of wages depended on the relation of available capital to the numbers of the working men.
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It did not in any way affect prices or wages, which were rendered neither greater nor less thereby.
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And with these, and the society of Jane on board-wages, Black Sheep was left alone for a month.
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Or what if I do not fish at all, but get my roast fish by paying for it a part of the wages I receive for working in a saw mill?
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Given that, you can see at once the reason for the wages paid and the full measure of the payment.
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