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minimum wages

minimum wages is the plural of minimum wage.

Meaning of minimum wage

Noun

minimum wage (usually uncountable, plural minimum wages)

  1. (usually) The lowest rate at which an employer must legally pay an employee, usually expressed as pay per hour.
    • A part of the Bill went to interfere in the bargains made between the master manufacturer and his workmen, upon a principle which could not fail to produce the most mischievous consequences; and he could not help observing, with relation to this point, that the idea of some persons, that a minimum...1812 July 25, [James Maitland, 8th] Earl of Lauderdale, “Frame Work Knitters’ Bill”, in T[homas] C[urson] Hansard, editor, The Parliamentary Debates […] (House of Lords), volume XXIII, London: […]...
    Antonyms:
    maximum wage

Questions about minimum wages

What is minimum wages the plural of?
Minimum wages is the plural of minimum wage.

Words near minimum wages in the dictionary

  1. minimum spanning tree
  2. minimum spanning trees
  3. minimum viable product
  4. minimum viable products
  5. minimum wage
  6. minimum wages
  7. minimum-security
  8. minimum-wager
  9. minimum-wagers
  10. minimums
  11. minimumweight

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