lost wages
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4.8
- noun
- Specialized
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salarios perdidos
- The company is responsible for compensating employees for any lost wages incurred during their leave of absence.
- lost wages and attorney
- lost wages and attorney fees
- costs and lost wages
Examples
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The ADEA provides for the recovery of lost wages and an additional equal amount as liquidated damages.
Academic text (1995) -
Benefits may cover the cost of medical care, lost wages, or both.
Academic text (2003) -
The court agreed and forced the factory to take him back and pay him 50 percent of his lost wages.
Academic text (2006) -
Carriers sometimes receive payments in the hundreds of thousands of dollars from the fund on single cases, even for lost wages claims.
Academic text (2011) -
If an employer fails to give such notice, it may be liable for lost wages, benefits, and civil fines.
Academic text (1996) -
Our UI pays, at best, 50% of lost wages, and ours has been extended only during this stagnation.
Blog text (20) -
Lower-income workers are less likely to be able to afford the tuition and lost wages associated with licensing's educational requirements, closing the door to many licensed jobs for them.
Academic text (2016) -
After the accident, she filed a claim to recover her lost wages while she was unable to work.
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Many workers struggle to make ends meet when they experience lost wages due to an injury or illness.
Synonyms
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3.6
Money given to pay someone for work and to make up for loss or injury
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'lost wages' is directly compositional: 'lost' (past participle of 'lose') modifies 'wages' (payments from work) to indicate earnings that were not received. This past-participle + noun pattern is common and mirrors equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Lost wages comes from the simple picture of your wages, your pay, being lost when you cannot work, like money that disappears if you miss days because of injury or sickness. So, it means the money a person does not earn while 'unable to work'.