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wagedom

wagedom noun: the practice of hiring workers for wages.

Noun

wagedom (uncountable)

  1. The practice of hiring workers for wages.
    • At the other end, we have workers in the coal and iron trades demanding wages varying with employers' profits. The first represents the transition from serfdom to wagedom; the second the transition from wagedom to freedom.1880, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, The Claims of Labour, Or, Serfdom, Wagedom, and Freedom, page 47
    • We may minimize it as we may by exaggerating our notions of the due rewards of enterprise ; but if we take the ethical idea of partnership as our concept of wagedom, if we look on human labour as a merchandise, we cannot logically resist the conclusion that capital, in part at any rate, is the...1908, The New Ireland Review - Volume 29, page 135

Origin of wagedom

From wage + -dom.

Questions about wagedom

What does wagedom mean?
Wagedom means the practice of hiring workers for wages.
What part of speech is wagedom?
Wagedom is a noun.

Words near wagedom in the dictionary

  1. wagecel
  2. wagecels
  3. wagecuck
  4. wagecucks
  5. waged
  6. wagedom
  7. wagel
  8. wageless
  9. wagelessness
  10. wageling
  11. wagelings

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