"starvation wage" meaning in All languages combined

See starvation wage on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: starvation wages [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪdʒ Head templates: {{en-noun}} starvation wage (plural starvation wages)
  1. (figuratively) A wage so low that it can barely support a person. Tags: figuratively Translations (Translations): hongerloon [neuter] (Dutch), nälkäpalkka (Finnish), salaire de misère [masculine] (French), Hungerlohn [masculine] (German), svältlön [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-starvation_wage-en-noun-Gg2YQZ~T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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