wage scale

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noun

a schedule of wages paid workers performing related tasks in an industry or shop.

a particular employer's wage schedule.

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Origin of wage scale

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby wage scale

wage earner, wage incentive, wage-push inflation, wager, wages, wage scale, wages council, wage slave, wageworker, wagga, Wagga Wagga

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How to use wage scale in a sentence

The most recent activity had a high point of 3.6 on the Richter Scale.
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So did Alexander Hamilton, and on a grander scale than your AmEx.
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Only two senators opposed the resolution, which the administration later claimed was the authority for a full-scale war.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
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On a small scale map, in an office, you may make mole-hills of mountains; on the ground there's no escaping from its features.
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Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
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Free discussion—never a very free thing in Russia—has now on any general scale become quite impossible.
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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.
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But consider what it will be when the system is adopted on a more comprehensive scale.
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British Dictionary definitions for wage scale

wage scale

noun

a schedule of wages paid to workers for various jobs in an industry, company, etc

an employer's schedule of wages

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Cultural definitions for wage scale

wage scale

A schedule of the wages paid to different classes of workers in a company.