living wage

生活工资,活工资,生活费,生活津贴

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n.名词 noun

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- : a wage on which it is possible for a wage earner or an individual and his or her family to live at least according to minimum customary standards.

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nounearnings sufficient for living

Synonyms

minimum wage最低工资,最低工资标准,最低工資,最低限度的工资 adequate income充分的收入,适当的收入,足够的收入,充足的收入 competence能力,职权,权限,功力 income收入,收益,收入情况,收入方面

Examples

The yearly income for this wage is $31,200 a year before taxes — an amount that still puts some below the living wage in many parts of the country, economists have said.
I was barely making a living wage, so keeping my job was critical.
Earning a living wage and not being desperate and exhausted all the time from working multiple jobs also makes people happier and healthier.
So, you don’t need a real living wage, and that still colors how badly teachers get paid now.
Amazon Prime shoppers need to get as many orders as they can in a day to make a living wage.
Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.
Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.
A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.
For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.
To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.
The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.

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The yearly income for this wage is $31,200 a year before taxes — an amount that still puts some below the living wage in many parts of the country, economists have said.

I was barely making a living wage, so keeping my job was critical.

Earning a living wage and not being desperate and exhausted all the time from working multiple jobs also makes people happier and healthier.

So, you don’t need a real living wage, and that still colors how badly teachers get paid now.

Amazon Prime shoppers need to get as many orders as they can in a day to make a living wage.

Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.

A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.

To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.

The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.

So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.

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