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wage labors

wage labors is the plural of wage labor.

Meaning of wage labor

Noun

wage labor (countable and uncountable, plural wage labors)

  1. (US) Labor that is sustained by giving the laborer a wage.
    • The system of wage labor is a system of slavery, and indeed of a slavery which becomes more severe in proportion as the social productive forces of labor develop, whether the worker receives better or worse payment.1972, Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1st edition, page 24

Questions about wage labors

What is wage labors the plural of?
Wage labors is the plural of wage labor.

Words near wage labors in the dictionary

  1. wage earner
  2. wage earners
  3. wage labor
  4. wage laborer
  5. wage laborers
  6. wage labors
  7. wage labour
  8. wage labourer
  9. wage labourers
  10. wage labours
  11. wage moderation

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