SLIDING SCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sliding scale mean? 

• SLIDING SCALE (noun)
  The noun SLIDING SCALE has 1 sense:

1. a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index

  Familiarity information: SLIDING SCALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLIDING SCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("sliding scale" is a kind of...):

wage scale; wage schedule (a schedule of wages paid for different jobs)