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living wage
n.
A wage sufficient to provide minimally satisfactory living conditions. Also called minimum wage.
living wage
Noun
a wage adequate for a worker to live on and support a family in reasonable comfort
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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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Spanish living wage n → sueldo suficiente para vivir
French living wage n → salaire m permettant de vivre (décemment)
German living wage living n → ausreichender Lohn m
Italian living wage n → salario sufficiente per vivere
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