unwaged
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5.6
- adjective
- /ʌnˈweɪdʒd/
- UK
:
no remunerado
- As a result, even in this safe harbor, the experiences and expressions of poor women of all races, who are unwaged home workers, mothers cycling on and off welfare, service and domestic workers, and/or homeless with their children, are again erased, coopted, and rendered silent.
Examples
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Many artists struggle with unwaged work while trying to pursue their passion.
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So she "conscripted" her husband into doing them; he quit his law job, and she came to hate his "unwaged domesticity."
Blog text (23) -
Half-price to the unwaged.
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"I had hated my husband's unwaged domesticity just as much as I had hated my mother's; and he, like her, had claimed to be contented with his lot.
Blog text (23) -
Valuing this type of unwaged labor in calculations of lost earnings allows women the opportunity to overcome the wage gap and receive awards that more adequately describe their loss.
Academic text (2017) -
He is also describing his poetic subjectivity as something akin to common right: it is his unofficial, often hidden or even stolen unwaged labor that allows him to become a poet.
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The support group offers resources for those facing unwaged situations.
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She found herself in unwaged labor after leaving her last job.
Synonyms
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6.5
Not paid for work or services
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3.7
Done without money given for work or services
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6.5
Does not get money for work done
Not paid for work you do
Not paid for work or help
Not receiving regular pay for work
Work done without pay
Surface Forms
Morphology
unwaged = waged (transparent) = un + wage + ed
The prefix 'un-' is clearly used to negate the adjective 'waged', forming 'unwaged'.
Etymology
Unwaged is made from the prefix un- 'not' and wage 'payment for work'. So unwaged describes a person or job that is 'not paid'.