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

Related formswage slavery, noun

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Examples from the Web for wage slave

I was as faithful a wage-slave as ever a capitalist exploited.
The House of Pride|Jack London
The wage-slave lives for the evening's liberty, the business man for his wealth, the preacher for his church.
Over Prairie Trails|Frederick Philip Grove
She sat in another chair, very straight in her lavender dress, and joined with the flapper in her survey of the wage-slave.
Bunker Bean|Harry Leon Wilson
Slave and slave-owner, serf and baron, wage-slave and capitalist—so the classes have struggled.
The Common Sense of Socialism|John Spargo

The wage-slave, when he is out of work, must now starve or go into the workhouse and be made miserable, or commit suicide.
British Socialism|J. Ellis Barker

British Dictionary definitions for wage slave

wage slave

noun

ironic a person dependent on a wage or salary

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wage slave

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wage slave

noun