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

Words nearby starvation wages

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How to use starvation wages in a sentence

He is an under-paid drudge in a retail grocery, on starvation wages.
Clemence|Retta Babcock
Doubtless the editor abjured linen shirt-bosoms because the poor Irishwomen who bleach the flax are paid starvation wages.
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2)|Ida Husted Harper
He gets everything from the labour of the poor; while they are forced to starvation wages by the raising of rents.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen
How could a farmer expect his men to work well if they were paid starvation wages?
Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3]|J. Ewing Ritchie

The base employment degraded them,—the starvation wages demoralized them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865|Various