subsistence wage

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the lowest wage upon which a worker and his family can survive

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Words nearby subsistence wage

subsist, subsistence, subsistence allowance, subsistence farming, subsistence level, subsistence wage, subsistent, subsocial, subsoil, subsoiler, subsoil plow

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Example sentences from the Web for subsistence wage

These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
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He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career.
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Of course, declining or stagnant wage growth started well before this president took office.
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Even public-service lawyering jobs, while underpaid for the field, still pay better than low-wage warehouse labor.
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The Supreme Court just handed a big holiday present to low-wage workers across America in the form of a giant f*ck you.
How Amazon Became Santa’s Sweatshop|Sally Kohn|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
If the high wage is paid and the short hours are granted, then the price of the thing made, so it seems, rises higher still.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
They wage war as a tribe on account of wrongs done to a private individual.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various

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