wage slave

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noun

a person who works for a wage, especially with total and immediate dependency on the income derived from such labor.

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Origin of wage slave

First recorded in 1885–90

OTHER WORDS FROM wage slave

wage slavery, noun

Words nearby wage slave

wage-push inflation, wager, wages, wage scale, wages council, wage slave, wageworker, wagga, Wagga Wagga, waggery, waggish

How to use wage slave in a sentence

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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By giving an artistic veto to a madman, we submit to the mindset of a slave.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Gallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.
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British Dictionary definitions for wage slave

wage slave

noun

ironic a person dependent on a wage or salary

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wage slave

Origin of wage slave

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British Dictionary definitions for wage slave