- starvation wages
- star,vation `wages noun plurala small amount of money that someone earns that is not enough for ordinary living
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starvation wages — noun : wages insufficient to provide the ordinary necessities of life * * * wages below the level necessary for subsistence. [1885 90] * * * starvation wages UK US noun [plural] a small amount of money that someone earns that is not enough for… … Useful english dictionary
starvation wages — wages below the level necessary for subsistence. [1885 90] * * * … Universalium
starvation wages — noun plural Date: 1870 wages insufficient to provide the ordinary necessities of life … New Collegiate Dictionary
starvation wages — /staˈveɪʃən weɪdʒəz/ (say stah vayshuhn wayjuhz) plural noun wages insufficient to support the earner and dependants, if any, above subsistence level …
starvation wages — UK / US noun [plural] a small amount of money that someone earns that is not enough for ordinary living … English dictionary
starvation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ prolonged, slow ▪ mass, widespread ▪ oxygen ▪ The pilot had lost consciousness because of oxygen starvation … Collocations dictionary
starvation — starv|a|tion [sta:ˈveıʃən US sta:r ] n 1.) [U] suffering or death caused by lack of food →↑hunger ▪ people dying of starvation 2.) starvation diet informal when you eat very little food, especially to become thinner 3.) starvation wages extremely … Dictionary of contemporary English
starvation — noun 1 (U) suffering or death caused by lack of food: people dying of starvation in the famine 2 starvation diet informal very little food 3 starvation wages extremely low wages … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
wages — n. 1) see wageI 2) starvation wages * * * see wage I starvation wages … Combinatory dictionary
Emil Rieve — (June 8, 1892 ndash; January 24, 1975)Saxon, Emil Rieve, Unionist, Dies, New York Times, January 26, 1975.] was a Polish American labor leader. He was president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) from 1939 to 1956, a vice president of … Wikipedia
