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Board wages

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Food and lodging supplied as compensation for services; as, to work hard, and get only board wages.
Money wages which are barely sufficient to buy food and lodging.
A separate or special allowance of wages for the procurement of food, or food and lodging.
See under 1st Board.

See also: Board Board Board Wage



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What he was, whether by trade or birth, was more than I could fathom; but he seemed most like an old, unprofitable serving-man, who should have been left in charge of that big house upon board wages.
The servants left with me were to be put on board wages.
It 'ud be worth a life's board wages at least, to you, and 'ud be cheap at that.
 
 
 
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