Definition of Living wage

1. Noun. A wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably.

Generic synonyms: Earnings, Pay, Remuneration, Salary, Wage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Living Wage

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living languages
living quarters
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living standard
living stone
living substance
living thing
living tissue
living together
living trust
living up
living wage (current term)
living will
living wills
livingly
livingness
livingnesses
livingroom
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livings
livingstone daisy
livingstonite
livish
livity

Literary usage of Living wage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"ESTIMATES OF A living wage FOR FEMALE WORKERS. BY CHARLES E. PERSONS, ... In Wisconsin a living wage means compensation sufficient to enable the employee to ..."

2. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons, John Bertram Andrews (1920)
"2 In the badly sweated trades this means a considerable increase for most of the workers, but not necessarily a living wage. For instance, in chain-making, ..."

3. The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis (1921)
"The definition of the living wage idea. An inescapable element of indefinite- ness ... The living wage principle put in the form of applied policy. ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1902)
"With tables of wages, and cost of living. Wage-workers—their earnings and expenses. (Kansas. Labor and Indus. Stats., Bur. of. 3. ann. rpt., 1888, pp. ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1902)
"With tables of wages, and cost of living. Wage-workers—their earnings and expenses. (Kansas. Labor and Indus. Stats., Bur. of. 3. ann. rpt., 1888, pp. ..."

6. The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell: Containing a Biographical by William Rhinelander Stewart (1911)
"A living wage for those who do the mechanical part of the work; because if they do not receive a living wage they will cease to work, either because they ..."

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