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Minimum wage   /mˈɪnəməm weɪdʒ/   Listen
Minimum wage

noun
1.
The lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law.





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"Minimum wage" Quotes from Famous Books



... when I ain't asked you for nothing. And if I pass the remark how that three pounds a week is my idea of a minimum wage, it isn't ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... your idea of the minimum wage for poets?—In view of the present purchasing power of the sovereign I should put it at eight hundred pounds a year. Modern poets require an extra amount of nourishment, owing to the nervous strain involved in production, and their requirements in the matter of dress ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 11, 1919 • Various
... of social legislation have made considerable progress in Europe, but have found little or no foot-hold in this country, such as minimum wage laws, health insurance, old age and widows' pensions, and unemployment insurance. The minimum wage law, establishing a level below which wages must not go, has been adopted by Massachusetts and a few other states in ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley


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