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Definition of Timework
1. Noun. Work paid for at a rate per unit of time.
Definition of Timework
1. Noun. Work that is paid at a certain rate per unit of time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timework
1. work paid for by the hour or by the day [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timework
Literary usage of Timework
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1902)
"TRADE UNIONS WHICH WILLINGLY RECOGNISE, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, BOTH PIECEWORK
AND timework United Society of Boilermakers and Iron-shipbuilders . ..."
2. Industrial Democracy by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1902)
"TRADE UNIONS WHICH WILLINGLY RECOGNISE, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, BOTH PIECEWORK
AND timework United Society of Boilermakers and Iron-shipbuilders . ..."
3. Germany, Present and Past by Sabine Baring-Gould (1879)
"Piecework and timework alike have their disadvantages. In timework, the master
pays for the idleness of his men; in piecework, the work itself deteriorates, ..."
4. Business English by Edwin Herbert Lewis (1911)
"These boards are empowered to fix a minimum rate for timework and piecework, and
any employer paying ... They fix minimum wages for timework and piecework. ..."
5. Bureau Publication ...: No. 1-4 by United States Children's Bureau (1921)
"... as co only 49.6 per cent of their timework positions, and $< 7.7 per cent of
their piecework, as compared with only of their timework positions. ..."
6. Economic Development of Modern Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg (1917)
"Trade boards," says the law, " shall, ... fix minimum rates of wages for timework
for their trades, . . . and may also fix general minimum rates of wages ..."
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