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living wage

n.
A wage sufficient to provide minimally satisfactory living conditions.
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living wage

n
(Economics) a wage adequate to permit a wage earner to live and support a family in reasonable comfort
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liv′ing wage′


n.
a wage on which it is possible to live at least according to minimum customary standards.
[1885–90]
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Noun1.living wage - a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably
pay, remuneration, salary, wage, earnings - something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings"
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living wage

n → salario sufficiente per vivere
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