living wage
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈlɪvɪŋ weɪdʒ/
:
salario digno
- Many participants mentioned the difficulty of finding employment, particularly a job that pays a living wage.
- pay a living wage
- earn a living wage
- living-wage jobs
It's just you should be paid a living wage.
- It's just you should be paid a living wage.
- But the bottom end of the NJC pay spine is lower than the living wage.
- But I would also argue that we need in this country an industrial policy for good jobs with living wages and one should not be pitted against the other.
- And it's far harder to find a good living wage to be able to purchase your first house.
- And in my small town, you just didn't hire native people back then for the full time jobs, the good living wage jobs.
- Like as far as I know, one of the big things is, you know, obviously healthcare and, and like a living wage, right.
- Hans Herminettes French cat food was spoiling, but she also goes into useful detail about the demand for an increase in the living wage.
Examples
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Today, amid a burgeoning global marketplace, renovated movements advocating a living wage are gaining momentum.
Academic text (2005) -
And when the coffee market drops, that's when fair trade ensures that the farmers will receive a living wage for their coffee.
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"Four dollars a day might have been a living wage back then," David said.
Fiction book (2000) -
I work full time and earn the living wage within the public sector.
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And it's far harder to find a good living wage to be able to purchase your first house.
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We all made more than a living wage and were treated like human beings.
Blog text (11) -
Lovers of justice usually agree that all Americans have a right to work at a living wage.
Academic text (1995) -
Acevedo discussed those who were working but not being paid a living wage.
Academic text (2009) -
So, start paying people a living wage and respecting the 40-hour work week and weekends.
Blog text (3) -
Many have worked in the industry a long time and deserve a living wage with decent benefits.
How Adequate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'living' (relating to subsistence/standard of living) combined with 'wage' (regular pay) yields a wage sufficient to support living. This adj/compound pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary word-combination logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Living wage comes from the simple idea that living means being able to live and wage means pay. It shows pay big enough to cover rent, food and other 'basic needs', so it means a wage high enough for a normal life.