subsistence wage
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She described the job as having changed in those years from a decent way to make a living to one that did not even offer a subsistence wage.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2019
One’s ability to obtain a subsistence wage was directly tied to the amount of effort one applied to the work process.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 20, 2018
People here did not often starve, but neither did they rise above the subsistence wage earned from growing their state-mandated quota of wheat and millet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.''
From Time Magazine Archive
It appears likely that few unmarried women or widows can undertake this work, because it does not suffice to afford a subsistence wage.
From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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