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WAGE SCALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wage scale mean?
• WAGE SCALE (noun)
The noun WAGE SCALE has 1 sense:
1. a schedule of wages paid for different jobs
Familiarity information: WAGE SCALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A schedule of wages paid for different jobs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Synonyms:
wage scale; wage schedule
Hypernyms ("wage scale" is a kind of...):
graduated table; ordered series; scale; scale of measurement (an ordered reference standard)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wage scale"):
sliding scale (a wage scale that fluctuates in response to the cost-of-living index)
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