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LIVING WAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does living wage mean?
• LIVING WAGE (noun)
The noun LIVING WAGE has 1 sense:
1. a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
Familiarity information: LIVING WAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("living wage" is a kind of...):
earnings; pay; remuneration; salary; wage (something that remunerates)
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