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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.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
The servants left with me were to be put on board wages.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It 'ud be worth a life's board wages at least, to you, and 'ud be cheap at that.
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