minimum wage
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- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪməm weɪdʒ/
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salario mínimo
- You can't live in Silicon Valley and make minimum wage today.
- pay the minimum wage
- minimum wage jobs
- minimum wage laws
They will shout at some unfortunate high school minimum wage clerk at a store.
- They will shout at some unfortunate high school minimum wage clerk at a store.
- Why the hell has the minimum wage not been raised?
- Peter Schiff says that the minimum wage hurts workers.
- During that time that the prices went up, the minimum wage was never raised.
- You can't live in Silicon Valley and make minimum wage today.
- I had all the stuff because there's no minimum wage in India.
- With the new legislation, employers can pay the minimum wage to avoid a greater evil.
- He thinks minimum wage should be abolished.
- Trump, are you for raising the minimum wage?
- They've, I don't know that they've changed their mind on the minimum wage laws.
Examples
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Well, good luck supporting your family on minimum wage.
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Should we raise the minimum wage to a living wage?
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I was making just minimum wage with that job.
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During that time that the prices went up, the minimum wage was never raised.
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Working for minimum wage was never my style.
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Margaret was making only minimum wage, a fact her father repeatedly brought up.
Fiction book (1999) -
The schedule is very flexible and it pays more than minimum wage.
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Unemployment is down, employment in the formal sector is up, and the minimum wage has increased notably.
Academic text (2008) -
They make more than minimum wage and they don't pay taxes.
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The legislation also raised the minimum wage, which now stands at $7.25 per hour.
Synonyms
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The lowest amount of money an employer can legally pay a worker
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'minimum' (smallest amount) + 'wage' (payment to a worker): a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the lowest pay. This compound follows a common, cross-linguistic noun+noun/adj+noun pattern and does not require idiomatic knowledge or metaphoric extension.
Etymology
Minimum wage comes from the image of minimum, meaning the smallest, and wage, meaning pay. It was set by law to make sure workers earn at least that amount, so minimum wage means 'the lowest pay allowed'.