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starvation wages
plural noun
- wages below the level necessary for subsistence.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of starvation wages1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
He is an under-paid drudge in a retail grocery, on starvation wages.
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Doubtless the editor abjured linen shirt-bosoms because the poor Irishwomen who bleach the flax are paid starvation wages.
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He gets everything from the labour of the poor; while they are forced to starvation wages by the raising of rents.
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How could a farmer expect his men to work well if they were paid starvation wages?
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The base employment degraded them,—the starvation wages demoralized them.
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