wage slave
wage slave noun: someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
Noun
wage slave (plural wage slaves)
- Someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- The catch is that you have to be invested in order to gnaw on it. The superwealthy will do fine buying and selling things. But many wage slaves just don't have the cash.1997 August 4, Daniel Kadlec, “The Tax Bill: Money In Motion”, in CNN
- Yankovic stars as George Newman, a daydreaming wage slave whose overactive imagination keeps standing between him and a steady paycheck.2012 June 14, Scott Tobias, “Weird Al's UHF is uneven, but that just made it ahead of its time”, in The A.V. Club
- Someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage.
- Synonyms:
- slave to the wage, wagecuck, wagie
wage slave meaning in Indonesian
wage slave in Indonesian
- one who works for wages
- budak korporat
Synonyms of wage slave
Forms of wage slave
| plural | wage slaves |
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Questions about wage slave
- What does wage slave mean?
- Wage slave means someone who works for wages and has little to no professional autonomy.
- What is wage slave in Indonesian?
- Wage slave in Indonesian is budak korporat. See Wage slave meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is wage slave?
- Wage slave is a noun.
- What is the plural of wage slave?
- The plural of wage slave is wage slaves.
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